Quotes About Expectations

Just as Wiseman's research demonstrates that we can make our own luck, including by lowering our rigid expectations and being open to new ones, Tim Russert made his own luck.

Consequently, immune systems at this level can be defined a priori as embodied expectations of injury and the corresponding programmes of protection and repair.

Hicieron planes, planes de viajes, planes para la vida. Sus planes eran más reales que su vida.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

If she is not able to complete her studies, she will get married at the proper age, i.e. not too young.' And educated men, both urban and rural, desire to marry women who have attained a certain level of education as well (although none of them wants to marry a woman with a higher education level than himself!).

Prostitution' similarly denotes a fall from grace, a failure to live up to expectations of productivity and chastity by women. All these, then, are images used mainly for young people, and their power lies in their association with failure.

You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.

I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition—the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck. To this day, I still don't know what went wrong.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

I remember being asked at various stages last season "Would you take 17th place now?". Come the last game of the season, the answer was definitely yes. At the start of the season, then the answer was probably yes. But looking back at the season as a whole, then the answer is probably between yes and no.

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

How long could she be expected to stay in a remote elbow of the Welsh border, where the idea of an eligible batchelor was a man with two tractors?

He accepted without question the notion that there is such a thing as 'normal,' that most people have attained it, and that it could be achieved by his patients if only they would have a successful therapy.

The self embodies what the culture believes is humankind's place in the cosmos-- its limits, talents, expectations and prohibitions... There is no universal, trans-historical self, only local selves; there is no universal theory about the self, only local theories.

We are all forecasters. When we think about changing jobs, getting married, buying a home, making an investment, launching a product, or retiring, we decide based on how we expect the future will unfold.

When I go to bed with a man,' he had said once, and Duncan now said for the benefit of the carriage and the complaining woman, 'I expect him to maintain full erection – full erection – from the moment of nudity onwards . Do I make myself plain? The very first moment of nudity. Anything else – anything that falls short of that – I regard as a personal insult .

Expectations and anomalies are mutually constitutive- they make each other. To assert that a person or an event is analogous cannot help but serve to create and reinforce other expectations

All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It's only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The

I can't help thinking that life isn't just about working out who we are and what makes us tick, it's also about understanding why we aren't where we ever expected to be.

felt personally betrayed that the man who had sung "Imagine no possessions" now had accumulated costly real estate and herds of prize cattle.

Of course, young people being what they were, girls sometimes fell in love with other girls, or boys with boys, but that never happened in the operas, so Boo-Boo didn't notice.

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.