Quotes About Expectations

One thing I've noticed is that the only places people insist you relax are the least relaxing places on the planet.

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her, because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

It was the pressure of being told two things: 1. That I only had a short amount of time, and 2. That I had to get everything right.

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her, because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.

I left Jill's party thinking that sometimes it isn't worth confirming what we already know about people we understand so well. Because what Charlotte had wanted that night wasn't me.

A game that I'd kept on playing because people expected me to, and I was good at doing what people expected. But not anymore, because no one seemed to expect anything from me anymore. The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

Sois tan Orgullo y prejuicio… —¿Te refieres a que me despreciará a causa de mi familia mientras intenta convencer al alma gemela de mi hermana de que, en realidad, no la ama?

If the songs were good, it would be a good day. If they were bad, I'd probably get a B on a quiz.

For a moment, I wondered if I should just tell her that she was a selfish, reckless girl who thought the world owed her something simply because she was pretty, and that I didn't want to be around when she discovered it didn't.

How can you ask me when i want to get married when you have yet to ask me if i will marry you?

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

62 percent of respondents said that people often failed to stick to established deadlines, viewing them as general guidelines rather than must-do organizational mandates.

When you know you'll be facing yet another agenda with your name next to an action item, that kind of pressure will drive some very healthy accountable behavior.

Getting everyone to set their expectations on how they will work together and consciously think about what it will take to create a high-performing team will yield huge dividends. To build team trust, make sure you talk about it. Personally

Accountability begins by clearly defining results. If the results are not clear, then accountability will break down, resulting in lower morale and misaligned work

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

They'd slept together three times, the second time to see whether the first time was just because they'd been too drunk, and the third time to see if being sober the second time had put too much pressure on them.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

You keep telling yourself it will be different. Year after year, time after time, you keep telling yourself things might change. It's what makes people go back to people they shouldn't ever go back to.

it occurred to me that the modern spiritual leaders of my tradition were always somber, self-important men, thickly coated in others' idea of who they were supposed to be.