Quotes About Expectations

What you praise defines what your child perceives success to be.

I did everything that might be expected from a person entirely ignorant of God's righteousness who works to build his own self-righteousness.

Girls fitted easily into their own and your own picture of someone dying of unrequited love. If they slipped out of it before you were ready, that was all right too; their slipping out frequently was the necessary reminder that an affair had run its course. It also was the necessary reminder that the realist in a woman, the good appraiser, makes her want to take a loss and get out before she is—for the purposes of the analogy—ruined.

Jimmy: I hope you won't make the mistake of thinking for one moment that I am a gentleman.

O trabalho de um compositor talentoso é criar expectativas e depois ou satisfazê-las ou frustrá-las. Mas o compositor não pode nem deve tentar um empolgamento constante. Como em qualquer história que se conte, ou mesmo num espetáculo de fogo de artifício, acrescentam-se algumas passagens mais calmas, deliberadamente, para que os momentos importantes causem mais efeito.

So we started introducing BS majors, in an effort to make the university ready for them, rather than making them ready for the university.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Just because people are related doesn't always make the difference it should.

It seems like a good way to grow up," I told her. "It was. But raising a child holds no guarantees. You can follow all the right steps, do all the right things, and still something can go wrong— Actually, no. That's a word my husband would use. I won't say wrong anymore, I'll say differently than planned. That's what happened to my daughter when she reached her teens.

I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.

[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!"

Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.

Purdue doubled its sales force during those years, from 318 to 767 pharmaceutical reps. In the trade, the reps are called detailers, and they're typically good-looking, gregarious, and well-dressed. They remember the names of the clinic receptionists and secretaries and nurses. Purdue expected each drug rep to develop a list of 105 to 140 physicians within a specific sales region and call each one every three or four weeks.

When the researchers asked adults in the United States, Canada, and India whether life is long or short, and whether it's easy or hard, the North Americans were no more sanguine than the Indians despite their statistical advantages in life expectancy and income.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them.

Sooner or later everybody demands that I be what they want me to be, and now you're doing it.

in loving relationships the absence of regularly reinforcing warm feelings automatically breeds disappointment and resentment as a by-product of frustrated expectations and desires.

recognizing the unworkability of a connection isn't a judgment on any individual. It's just an acceptance of the complexity of this world and how difficult it is to match needs and expectations. Generally,

He opened his front door and heard the TV from the living room. He could see his parents sitting side by side, staring at the screen. He didn't bother to say hello. His parents generally didn't care whether he was home or not. From the hallway Gavin stared at them for a minute, shaking his head in disbelief. They were his parents. They were supposed to be on his side.

The young men of this generation mock the words of age; it would be well if they mocked nothing else; but what can we expect of those who doubt all and believe nothing?

Indeed, all of our past education will in some ways hinder us; for our habits of thinking about the nature of experience have determined our own expectations as radically as the habits of medieval man determined his.

Like all parents she is dichotomous, what she really wants is a child genius who is perfectly normal.