Quotes About Expectations

Harvard historian Crane Brinton (The Anatomy of Revolution) pointed out that revolutionary sentiments generally develop in periods of long-term economic progress, not abject deprivation. When business produces a sharp increase in living standards, the 'revolution of rising expectations' leaves workers and farmers impatient for more rapid advancement.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

The stronger you become in the Force, the more that you can do, the more that's expected of you, and the less your life belongs to you.

Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present.

They don't get any skinnier after you marry them.

the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

Minimize expectations to avoid being disappointed.

Some parents expect too much of their children and others expect too little. Both can be equally damaging.

is so strange, this life we lead. We search for happiness, but so much is about survival. Existence. We try to manage expectations, but really we're treading water, wasting time, or contemplating lives we might have led. Pretty soon we're like every other godless, money-hungry, backstabbing, jaded, jealous human being, wishing we were richer, prettier, younger, luckier, or could do it all over again.

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

Why do people always talk about how fast a car can get from naught to sixty? I mean, what's the big deal about sixty miles an hour? It's like people think aliens are going to land and only be able to do fifty-nine. They'll suck out our brains unless we can do naught to sixty in less than ten seconds.

All parents disappoint us eventually.

Sometimes when a man feels bad about himself, he doesn't want to be with a woman who looks at him with nothing but love. Instead he wants to lie on top of a woman who knows how nasty and shallow and faithless he can be … a woman who doesn't put him on a pedestal or expect him to be a knight in shining armour … a woman who's happy with the worst he can be.

And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.

He once told me he didn't like to meet people he admired because they invariably disappointed in person.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Tell me, storyteller, what is the greatest mistake a parent can make? -To believe that your children will be just like you

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

She likes to use the word "realistically" which I come to realize is a rationale, an excuse, to not plan ahead because much of what she might want for herself, upon reflection does not seem realistic.

We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.

Guilt is the uncomfortable certainty that we are not what we could have been.

Most of us live in a state of perpetual "could be better." We're so used to having control over every little parameter of our lives that we cannot focus on what's going right, only on what's going wrong. That's the viewpoint we always seem to be coming from, and it means that we are perpetually unsatisfied, unhappy, disappointed, and ungrateful.