Quotes About Expectations

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos.

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

Don't overstate your likely achievements; when in doubt, understate them.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

You will renounce all relations with me. You will make my meals and tidy my house. You are my servant and nothing more. [rules for his first wife Mileva Maric and his second wife Elsa Einstein]

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

To be acceptable, it seems, a project must often be billed as a pure replica of a successful venture in an advanced country.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.

Analizando su vida doméstica, Biran sentía que había hecho muy bien en casarse con una amable y simple mujer, capaz de ser feliz a mi lado sin reclamarme nada, y para quien soy siempre lo suficientemente bueno como para no hacer esfuerzo alguno en modificarme.

The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get.

Happiness is a hard master- particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.

The unpleasantness of life in the utopia

Happiness is a hard master – particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

How can one be violent about the sort of things one's expected to write about? Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly_they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

si le pides poco a la vida lo más fácil es que no te dé nada.

Poi non è che la vita vada come tu te la immagini. Fa la sua strada. E tu la tua.