Quotes About Expectations

If this is the ride of my life, I want a refund.

You can't really blame folks for thinking you might be disappointed," Henry replied. "You have to watch the Harmonicandy get all the glory. Under your own roof, no less! And after you'd worked so hard on your Bubbletastic ChocoRocket.

Abashed, should assumed its place in the list of what could be accomplished, what couldn't.

Unsure how to find grace and security in the complex world we've inherited, we try to fill up the spaces in our children's lives with stuff: birthday entertainments, lessons, rooms full of toys and equipment, tutors and therapists. But material pleasures can't buy peace of mind, and all the excess leads to more anxiety—parents fear that their children will not be able to sustain this rarefied lifestyle and will fall off the mountain the parents have built for them.

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A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.

This is becoming our great modern divide, his commitment problem and her hang-up problem. These two problems have emerged together for a reason. A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit.

Failure to sleep with someone is now an act of hostility, whereas it was once understood to be part of the natural process of searching for one's mate.

A las personas las queremos por cómo son, y por cómo nos hacen sentir. Normalmente toleramos sus defectos, y hasta nos los guardamos, pero en cuanto nos vemos reflejados en sus ojos de algún modo que no responda a lo que deseamos ver, a lo que necesitamos ver para sentirnos bien, se rompe la columna vertebral de ese amor.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

It was only later that she would remember that the truth did not always set you free. And that you had to be careful what you wished for, because you might actually get it.

The rest of their authors were thrown out there, much like shit flung at a wall, while the publisher waited to see who "stuck," or so it seemed to Kendall.

Horses get anxious when their expectations are not met.

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

The consequence for not adequately training your Huns is their failure to accomplish that which is expected of them.

Defect-free software does not exist.

Well, I've got three things working against me before I even walk into the room: 1. I'm the last speaker of the day. The fans are tired and a little burned out. 2. I'm following Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis. They do conventions together all the time, have a set routine that never fails, and the fans adore them. 3. I was Wesley Crusher.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task. Claims

Errors in the initial budget are not always innocent. The authors of unrealistic plans are often driven by the desire to get the plan approved—whether by their superiors or by a client—supported by the knowledge that projects are rarely abandoned unfinished merely because of overruns in costs or completion times. In

The halo effect helps keep explanatory narratives simple and coherent by exaggerating the consistency of evaluations: good people do only good things and bad people are all bad. The statement "Hitler loved dogs and little children" is shocking no matter how many times you hear it, because any trace of kindness in someone so evil violates the expectations set up by the halo effect. Inconsistencies reduce the ease of our thoughts and the clarity of our feelings.

The third principle is loss aversion. When directly compared or weighted against each other, losses loom larger than gains. This asymmetry between the power of positive and negative expectations or experiences has an evolutionary history. Organisms that treat threats as more urgent than opportunities have a better chance to survive and reproduce.