Quotes About Expectations

secepat itu Indi memvisualisasikan sepasang sepatu tua yang disembunyikan di bawah tangga. Sepatu nyaman yang selalu dipakai ketika kaki pemiliknya letih. Namun, ketika sang pemilik ingin menghadapi dunia, dia tak mungkin memilih sepatu itu. Akan dipakainya sepatu mentereng yang memang diperuntukkan sebagai pendampingnya. Dunia menuntut demikian. Sekalipun tidak nyaman, tapi itu kewajiban.

I don't really plan to be a pop star I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

Even in some industrialized nations, time is viewed more as an estimate than an exact science. Brazilians, Spaniards, and Southeast Indians, for instance, don't value punctuality as highly as the Swiss, Germans or North Americans and have a pretty flexible idea of what's considered "on time.

I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly, "so long as it doesna bother you that I am." He grinned at my drop-jawed expression, and backed toward the door. "Reckon one of us should know what they're doing," he said. The door closed softly behind him; clearly the courtship was over.

Community does involve psychology stuff — which, in my opinion, is why roughly 90 percent of new communities fail. Forming a community is deeply psychological. Emotional pain and hidden expectations exert a powerful pull on people, and community founders are no exception. Put a group of people in a community visioning session, and you have dozens of different needs and expectations, known and unknown, ricocheting invisibly around the room.

First, living in community cannot erase buried emotional pain. When people find that after living in community they're still yearning for something valuable and elusive (although they may not know what it is), they tend to feel angry and disappointed.

Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.

I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the room together.

The tiniest of earthquakes seemed to rustle through him, the kind that shakes petals off flowers, as Justen became aware of the gulf between what he was supposed to feel for Persis Blake and what he actually did.

the other boy, at Farthing, hadn't been reasurring. His father certainly hadn't been. Mustard's marching orders had been clear. He was supposed to come to Blackbrook and keep his nose clean, not get involved in two separate murders and make out with a cute guy in an abandoned building. But Plum just kept being there. Undeniable. Inevitable. Like lots of things were, he supposed.

Most people don't understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don't get a chance to live their lives.

in these stories, written with no particular reader in mind, she found the key to freeing the small boy trapped in the wrong body, a salve to the gender quandary that so dismayed her when every expectation was for her to be a girl with curls.

We are all of us, men and women both, the creatures of culture: we do and feel what our societies ask us to, and the demands put upon us are not always consistent or precisely correlated with biology.

two more women sat, ready to judge her. She thought of all the times she'd imagined her audition for Juilliard. The people in front of her were not Juilliard professors, but

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and personal satisfaction. The results are frequently disappointing, and always terminate in the embarrassing non sequitur of death.

Don't think you are a great person just because you are a star in a given sport and win all the time because the next time, you may lose—and the time after that.

I certainly didn't feel like writing anymore. I couldn't explain why, but the only emotion that I could arouse were feelings of anger and after staying mad all day and half the night, I was just plain tired. Mad at what? Just about everything, for just about everything was done wrong or it wasn't done perfectly. Since nothing but perfection was acceptable, I stayed mad.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

Expecting a lot from people, you do a lot of smiling; Needing many things for yourself, you have many needs to meet; Making plans to do first this, then that, your mind's full of hopes and fears— From now on, come what may, don't be like that.

Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen.