Quotes About Expectations

Many can't help faking happiness on account of social pressure. Happiness can be viewed as a social duty and sadness is socially not acceptable. ( "C'est quand le bonheur ?" )

Mutual understanding becomes misunderstanding, when there are no longer commitments, no definite expectations, no responsibilities and no common objectives. Misunderstanding may end up in regret, pain and confusion. ("Mutual understanding" )

manager's bill of rights," those basic things that you have a right to expect from your employees. Responsible employees: Are responsive to feedback Keep their agreements Manage their own growth Are "Good Company Citizens

want relationships to work like an ATM. I give to others, and they spit out exactly what I request. Instead, it's more like a slot machine. I never know what I'm going to get in return, and sometimes I get nothing but X's across the board.

You're no better than Sharpclaw and Sparrowpelt. They look down their noses at us because we stay loyal to our housefolk as well as our Clan. I thought you were different, Leafstar, but I was wrong

We should have learned by now not to be surprised by kittypets." Graystripe

Plenty of she-cats have kits and then return to the warriors' den." But do they become Clan leader?

I'm supposed to be this brilliant ThunderClan warrior, from a line of important ThunderClan warriors—so why do I feel so out of place?

If a queen started kitting every time some cat upset them, there'd be a lot of unexpected deliveries

StarClan wanted him as much as Bluestar did. Poor Firestar, he scarcely seems able to close his eyes without some farsighted dream filling his mind. But he has handled this burden well, lived up to all of StarClan's expectations. Maybe it took more than a Clanborn cat to discover Tigerstar's treachery, or to bring WindClan home after they were driven out by ShadowClan

You're twice the cat Tigerpaw will ever be. I could never be disappointed in you.

Bumblestripe shrugged. "He snapped at Hazeltail for getting in the way, hissed at Cherrypaw for trampling on Ferncloud's moss, and ordered Foxleap and Toadstep to fetch comfrey." He glanced warily over his shoulder. "So I guess he's fine.

Dumb moor cats. Anger pulsed beneath Clear Sky's pelt. Always expecting more than they deserve

has always been the natural leader of all the Clans," she pointed out. "For that reason, we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard.

I want so much to be someone important, or even just asked out by a boy every once in a while. Maybe the new me will be different.

Adolescenti prolaze teško razdoblje. Odrasli se prema njima ponašaju kao prema djeci, ali o?ekuju da se oni ponašaju kao odrasli. Zapovijedaju im kao da su male životinje, a onda o?ekuju da reagiraju kao zrele, uvjek racionalne i samopouzdane osobe. Teško je to vrijeme izgubljenosti i traženja

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

Si quiere rechazar la maternidad, ¡qué mejor! Los hijos nos encadenan.

La originalidad de Borges (entre otras, entre las muchas formas de su originalidad) reside en su resistencia a ser encontrado allí donde lo buscamos: algo del viejo vanguardista queda en esa resistencia a responder lo que se le pregunta y ajustarse a lo que se quiere escuchar de él.

I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

Boys eat better when their parents continue to expect them to eat vegetables and include them in home-cooked meals as they get older. Or - better still - get them to prepare the home-cooked meals themselves.

Almost through force of habit, she found her lips saying the words she had so often said before: "Let's not spoil it . . . You will write to me, my dear, my dear . . ." His face was impassive. "I never write," he said.

Styeddy, styeddy. Boyfrriend. Boyfrriends out eleven o'clock, styeddies out twelve," she pronounced sternly. Then, as if relieved at an unpleasant duty so neatly discharged, she added: "Rrule." Beguiled by the momentary vision of a procession of boyfriends tiptoeing down the stairs, shoes in hand, while steadies, single-file, marched up from eleven to twelve, I said primly: "I'm interested only in my work.

To love someone is to grant him or her the gift of one's pure and undivided attention, without preconceived expectations of what the other person needs, what we imagine to be best in the situation, what particular results we want to engineer.