Quotes About Expectations

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.

The culture or environment of a company starts from the top. The leadership. The leadership of a company sends a message to its employees of what is tolerated and what is not.

Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.

There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain.

it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

Multiple experiments have demonstrated that—above a certain amount for comfort—more money does not make those who have it happier. Instead, it often leaves them feeling unfulfilled and ratchets up their stress.

If you love a man for his honesty, you cannot become angry when he shows it.

She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

I found a big groove ready waiting for me when I grew up, and in that I was expected to live whether it suited me or not. It did not suit me. It was deep and narrow, and gave me no room to move.

Decide early on what your puppy needs in order to feel included and satisfied in each situation (a bone, a mat, a 15-minute game of Toss after a nap), and insist on only the behavior you've outlined.

I'd never have guessed which people I'd still know by now.

Happiness begins to deteriorate once it is named.

Choose one: chronic disappointment or lowering your expectations to the point where nothing can disappoint you. But consider also that you might miss feeling disappointed.

When a student surpasses my expectations, I feel proud and betrayed.

Choose one: chronic disappointment or lowering your expectations to the point where nothing can disappoint you.

I asked my parents to buy me a Lite Brite like the one I played with in school, and they did. It was the only toy I had that plugged in, that was bought new... I couldn't reconcile it with the other things in my room and in our house, and I can'r remember every playing with it. It was mine, but I didn't feel worthy of using it. It wasn't my turn to use it yet, not when it was still brand-new.

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

It's commonly believed that there's less pressure on a woman to be married these days than there used to be. If that's true, if things are better now than they were before, then they once must have been very bad indeed.

I don't want to marry you. I just want you to give me an orgasm." "Just the one? You have low expectations.

He said he loved her, but love, as she well knew, was unreliable. Like Christmas, it came with expectations.

What you never read about is the millions of normal women who are struggling to hold it all together and don't own a planner because we don't exactly know what we'd write in one!