Quotes About Expectations

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

took several years of gaining perspective before I understood the wisdom of the CEO's words. There are three reasons he was right: • It's impossible to do everything yourself all the time. • If you manage it once, you raise unrealistic expectations from those around you. • Once you fail to meet expectations, it is very difficult to regain credibility.

None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.

Australian girls nearly always begin to think of 'lovers and nonsense', as middlefolks call it, long before their English aged sisters do... And herein lies the chief defect of the very young Australian girl. She is like a peach; a beautiful, smooth, rich peach, that has come to ripeness, almost in a day, and that hastens to rub off the soft, delicate bloom that is its chief charm, just to show its bright, warm colouring more clearly.

The huge irony is that the more the gospel is offered in consumer terms, the more the consumers are disappointed.

But sooner or later we find that not everything is to our liking in this book. It starts out sweet to our taste; and then we find it doesn't sit well with us at all, it becomes bitter in our stomachs. Finding ourselves in this book is most pleasant, flattering even, and then we find that the book is not written to flatter us, but to involve us in a reality, God's reality, that doesn't cater to our fantasies of ourselves.

We work hard for something, get it and then find we don't want it. We struggle for years to get to the top and find life there thoroughly boring.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

Without having to confine my dreams to the destiny outlined in one's name and the expectations bestowed during one's naming, I was left free to embrace the natural turns of my character and to determine my own future, drawing from the deepest well on unnamed possibilities.

In France, a law now requires large companies not to expect their employees to send or respond to emails after work hours.

By the time I left New York, I knew that success and failure are silly terms in which to speak of living a life.

When he says, "Why can't you follow a recipe?" I am hurt, because I know that he is not just asking why I can't be told what to do, but also why I can't let things be simple.

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

Miss Minton knew she was going to be dismissed, and she thought this was perfectly fair. A governess who let her charge sail up the rivers of the Amazon and live with Indian tribes could hardly expect to keep her job.

I'm afraid I'm not very clever." Sir Aubrey looked shocked. "Good heavens, boy, I should hope not! The Taverners have never been bookish. Except your poor father, and look what happened to him.

If you are in harmony with the stream of life, giving yourself up to it, whatever comes your way will smoothly carry you forward. While in unreality, you know but two alternatives which are both equally wrong. The one is "I can be happy only if everything happens the way I want it when I want it." The other alternative is "Since I have seen that so many times I cannot get what I want, I can never get it, therefore I can never be happy.

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

I mean, what is 'normal' anyway? It's just a societal construct that we all choose to live under to avoid social friction.

You can write a song for someone, and then their mom doesn't like it, and then it doesn't get released. It could be the best song that you've ever written. I hated that, because I didn't have any control.

Once I am done with the film, I don't worry about how many centres the film has released, what are the BO records, etc. As I have no knowledge of such things, feeling the pressure doesn't arise.

So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.