Quotes About Expectations

Don't cave in. It's easy to get distracted. It's easy to let influences pull you away from your structured weekly schedule in pursuit of your goals. Discipline and resolve will lead to your next job. Don't cave in on the high expectations you establish for yourself when you set the bar high (above in Principle #1).

I saw a stupid ad for a microwave that cooks in ten seconds. Are there really people who say, "I've been home for ten seconds, where the hell is dinner?"

We put great expectations on our tomorrows when we truly need to rely on ourselves. Far too many overlook personal action, as a means to get things done. Blame is easily passed if one does not hold themselves accountable.

It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself.

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

Our everyday reality is a grand illusion which we are creating. By exploring and changing our inner world, we begin to transform our outer world. If we are willing to embark on an inner journey, we can discover all of the beliefs, expectations, and hidden agendas through which we create our own lives, and collectively, we can begin to shape the future in ways that honor the sacredness of all life.

Fine-looking young chap, isn't he? Would have cut quite a dash as a dragoon but for his vocation as a virgin.

It's sad but it^s true how society says her life is alredy over. There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say..

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

In dog culture, when someone calls you, you should absolutely not come if that results in the ending of something you like or initiation of something you don't like.

L'amour n'a jamais le visage qu'on lui voudrait; au lieu d'être doux et discret, il encombre, il blesse.

The telephone could ring twice, Vito knew he was not going to pick it up. He would put on his leg before his trousers as he did every day on first getting up - at all events nothing good would ever again come by phone, and any way, no matter what, his leg came first.

It's always hard to follow in the footsteps of a legend, especially when you don't even want to.

But Portia's application would have landed in the great moving tide of similar applications: great kids, smart kids, hardworking kids who would certainly do great at whatever college they ended up going to, which almost certainly wasn't going to be Princeton.

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.

Meghan and her husband had talked about how they wanted to be open and comfortable with Eva when talking about sex, but they had expected Eva's first questions to be about where babies come from, not this. This was not what they had in mind! Should Meghan actually describe oral sex? What could this possibly mean to a 7-year-old? And how would her explanation affect Eva's understanding about sex and relationships between caring adults, both short and long term?

A culture which requires people to live in a way for which their evolution has not prepared them, which does not fulfill their innate expectations and therefore pushes their adaptability beyond its limits, is bound to damage their personalities.

A man can work from sun to sun, But a woman's work is never done.

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

featured a sample of women's magazine article headlines from the 1950s: "Have Babies While You're Young," "Are You Training Your Daughter to Be a Wife?" "Don't Be Afraid to Marry Young," and "The Business of Running a Home"—a collection unsurprising to post-Boomer generations accustomed to hearing about the domesticity of the past.

People are so codified - it's sad.