Quotes About Expectations

People who live by the same code are rendered mutually predictable to one another. They act in keeping with each other's expectations and desires. They can cooperate. They can even compete peacefully, because everyone knows what to expect from everyone else. A shared belief system, partly psychological, partly acted out, simplifies everyone—in their own eyes, and in the eyes of others.

What's the price you pay for a high standard of living? Well, that's easy. You virtually always sacrifice the present for the future.

Las personas que viven bajo el mismo código se predicen mutuamente. Actúan de tal forma que reproducen los deseos y expectativas de los demás. Pueden cooperar. Pueden incluso competir de forma pacífica, porque todos saben a qué atenerse. Un sistema de creencias compartidas, en parte psicológico y en parte representado, lo simplifica todo, a los ojos de esas mismas personas y de las demás.

Asimismo, las creencias compartidas simplifican el mundo porque las personas que saben qué esperar de las demás pueden cooperar para domesticarlo.

It's a good idea to tell the person you are confronting exactly what you would like them to do instead of what they have done or currently are doing.

You no longer have to be frustrated, because you have learned to aim low, and to be patient.

Here's a productive symbolic idea: the future is a judgmental father.

And my wife…well, I guess she'd earned her scene with me, but still; did she really have that much reason to be angry? I mean, when she married me she knew what she was getting into, didn't she? She had been my mistress, for Chrissake! That spoke volumes, didn't it"?

I'd gone my whole life with people expecting things I didn't seem capable of giving, so why should now be any different?

Usually, when someone announces they're a "nonlinear thinker" they're about to apologize for losing something you lent them.

Si tu marido quiere dormir, no le presiones ni estimules la intimidad. Si es él quien te pide la unión, accede humildemente teniendo en cuenta que su satisfacción es más importante que la de la mujer. Si las prácticas sexuales que te demanda son inusuales, sé obediente y no te quejes. En el momento culminante, un pequeño gemido por tu parte es suficiente para indicar cualquier goce que hayas podido experimentar».

Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.

No, she wanted me to beg her to do what she wanted to do. Like all women, she wanted me to offer her what she desired. I have been rolled.

For there is no doubt that the most radical division that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere boys that float on the waves.

We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

Armando was the only man who'd been patient enough to chase after me. After he had caught me, he'd done what every man loves to do when he has found the woman of his dreams: take her for granted.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men