Quotes About Expectations

El mundo que imaginamos no es una réplica precisa de la realidad; nuestras expectativas sobre la frecuencia de los acontecimientos están distorsionadas por la prevalencia y la intensidad emocional de los mensajes que nos llegan.

Unusual events (such as botulism) attract disproportionate attention and are consequently perceived as less unusual than they really are. The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.

recipe for a dissatisfied adulthood is setting goals that are especially difficult to attain. Measured by life satisfaction 20 years later, the least promising goal that a young person could have was "becoming accomplished in a performing art.

Capacidade para surpresa é um aspecto essencial de nossa vida mental, e a própria surpresa é o indicativo mais sensível de como compreendemos nosso mundo e o que esperamos dele.

One recipe for a dissatisfied adulthood is setting goals that are especially difficult to attain. Measured by life satisfaction 20 years later, the least promising goal that a young person could have was "becoming accomplished in a performing art

Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be.

flawed stories of the past shape our views of the world and our expectations for the future. Narrative fallacies arise inevitably from our continuous attempt to make sense of the world.

We cannot hold a concept of well-being that ignores what people want

Man hat uns früh eingeredet, dass ein Leben Publikum benötigt.

În realitate, nimic nu te re?ine acolo unde toat? lumea crede c? trebuie s? r?mâi.

The critical point is that knowing we can always get higher can be a real downer. It informs us that we are never going to reach the ultimate point of happiness because there is no ultimate point of happiness.

Promise less than you deliver

What is suffering? The desire for things to be other than they are. What is contentment? Accepting everything as it is.

A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said "What will you be? What will you do?" I would have laughed at this kind of person that lives all the time in the future.

Few sons are the equals of their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them." —

With disillusioned smiles, we allow our young people to tempt or try out their passion, desire, and sensorality, knowing that one day they will be like us, weary and well behaved out of obligation.

Vous ne vous rendez pas compte, monsieur, j'ai douze ans et demi, et je n'ai rien fait.

In materia di esami e di assunzioni, - capire - significa capire quel che ci si aspetta da noi. Un testo - capito bene - è un testo intelligentemente negoziato.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

When you're as small as I am, people don't expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

Patience was not an American virtue.

I was in my late thirties at the time, and Phillip was looking for someone a bit younger. When he met lovely Lindsay Morgan, a yoga enthusiast and model twelve years my junior, he dropped me like an underperforming stock.

Like many parents, they equated normality with being happy and productive.

the enemy that's going to paralyze you with fear is your own sense of self-importance and your excessive ego. The thought of not living up to the image of yourself that you want everyone to see is a source of tremendous anxiety. At