Quotes About Expectations

Play the hand you have, Antonio, that's all anybody expects.

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same reason they are made in the first place.

CEB's research shows that customer loyalty has more to do with how well companies keep their "basic, even plain vanilla promises" than with how well they dazzle customers.

Rest is a space that God gives us where we are removed from the expectations to be productive.

Throughout the book I have continually used the phrase earning and receiving. Why do I keep adding the words "and receiving?" Because, as everyone who has ever tried to sell anything has discovered, to his dismay, it's one thing to earn a fee, but quite another to actually receive it. You make a grave mistake if you develop the habit of prematurely celebrating.

Stressed-out individuals tend to press too hard for results at crucial moments, and the harder someone presses for a result, the less likely it is he will achieve it.

In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time.

He noticed his voice shook a little, and he didn't like it. American males have their standards, after all.

The common saying is "I'll believe it when I see it," but human perception is more accurately characterized as "I'll see it when I believe it." In international politics where expectations of hostility are common, the results are often unfortunate.

He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Catherine, who knew little about sex, about erections and foreskins, and, certainly, nothing about phimosis, knew well what was expected of wives in a royal marriage.

The team's diagnosis of a problem this morning centers on Sergio. The entire group has just spent time discussing Sergio's most recent review. On any given day, all employees are getting and giving feedback from multiple sources about how they're doing their jobs. Nothing in a formal review comes as a surprise. But it's also expected that individual reviews will be discussed with the entire team and with total candor. Niko

The High Chair Tyrant who attacks his human host is the perfectionist; he expects the impossible of himself and berates himself (just as his mother did) when he can't meet the demands of the infant within. The Tyrant pressures a man for more and better performance and is never satisfied with what he produces. The unfortunate man becomes the slave (as the mother was) of the grandiose two-year-old inside of him.

JeÅ›li m??czyzna wie, czego chce, mówi siÄ™, ?e jest mÄ™ski. JeÅ›li kobieta mówi, co myÅ›li, mówi siÄ™, ?e jest wredna - albo i gorzej.

Entrepreneurs typically start on a path they do not see as risky at all, then something happens that upsets their expectations and, being too far into their projects to turn back, they are forced to improvise. Those who get over this hump, or mountain, of unexpected trouble are the surviving entrepreneurial successes.

you become skilled at truculantly blaming others when something goes wrong, those others can be kept occupied with the necessity of being defensive. Certainly they will be too busy to hold the Complainer accountable for meeting their, or anyone else's, expectations.

He scolds the whole staff when one person is late for a meeting

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

She told me her real name but insisted that I call her by an American name. This beautiful and innocent girl on the other side of the world insisted that I call her Sally. It was depressing.

You may have experienced this phenomenon in the form of test anxiety. The more important you believe the test to be, the more you have riding on the outcome, the more fear you feel. And then you find it difficult to concentrate.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

We must ask ourselves: what should we demand of ourselves, given the imperfections of politics and the disappointments of history.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.