Quotes About Expectations

If you know you will not be perfect, then those mistakes can roll off your shoulders as you move on to the next play. But if perfection is your ideal, those mistakes will cripple you with frustration. So be realistic, understand that you and others will make mistakes, and use those as building blocks for the future.

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.

I'm a role model now. I didn't know I was gonna have 13-year-old fans, so I've tried to change a few things here and there. But I also know that the girls don't want me to be Miley Cyrus, either.

Women, in short, have been trained to believe that they're not allowed to be angry." "Trained," Katherine said loudly. "You're always talking about training, like we're dogs or something." "It's not polite to raise your voice," I said, and she immediately hunched and blushed. Suze frowned. "Don't frown," I said to her, "you'll get wrinkles." Silence.

For a while she enjoyed a life in which she behaved exactly as she should: a royal maid with no secrets.

Most women learned very young to play the roles expected of them. Girls' games were built on the notion: play Mom, play nurse, play teacher. They played and played and played until they learned to inhabit the roles.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live a life that is not mediocre.

Human problems are neither exactly definable, nor remotely solvable. He who expects Christianity to solve them has ceased to be a Christian.

The failure of progress has not consisted in the non-fulfillment but in the fulfillment of its promises.

The disaster of democracy only becomes apparent when its promises have been fully fulfilled.

Understanding the transitory nature of all things is prerequisite to letting go of expectations and attachments.

He [Molière] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

He (Molire) pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'

Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

There are no unrealistic dreams, just unrealistic timelines.

When something goes wrong, such as failing an exam to qualify as a doctor, a person may seem to be despairing over something that has been lost. But on closer inspection, according to Kierkegaard, it becomes obvious that the man is not really despairing of the thing (failing an exam) but of himself. The self that failed to achieve a goal has become intolerable. The man wanted to become a different self (a doctor), but he is now stuck with a failed self and in despair.

For example, in the airline business people talk about the 'olive factor' – if you forget to put the olive in the martini, the customer thinks you will forget to put the wheels down when you land the plane, and this is not regarded as a good idea.

The trouble with discounting is that it tells the whole world you have problems, and builds expectations of more discounts for those who wait.

A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating.