Quotes About Expectations

All parents must reconcile their fantasies for their children with the choices their kids actually make.

their distributors: The more you sell, the more they sell. But, ironically, the most intense pressure often comes from two sources that both determine and define your success as a business, namely, your employees and your customers.

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

I just love that. Give people something good to live up to—something great—and they usually will. In fact, often they'll even exceed those expectations.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

We thought that interactivity would make advertising more engaging. We thought that traditional advertising was on the way out. We thought that the DVR was going to devastate TV. We thought the PC and the television were going to converge. None of this has happened.

Peter Drucker advised people who were looking for their life's task: What are my values, my aspirations, my directions, and what do I have to do, to learn, to change, in order to make myself capable of living up to my demands on myself and my expectations of life?

The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.

The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL." ? Bob Proctor

Stop worrying about what can go wrong, and get excited about what can go right. Always remember that our future is filled with exciting possibilities that we get to take part in. We will rise to our expectations, expect that great things will happen. As ships go out to sea, they don't look for the storms, they look forward to the catch.

While no solutions seem obvious, there is general agreement throughout the industry that if local newspapers go away and some entity does not rise to do what we have come to expect of them—that is, keep an eye on local government—we will experience corruption at levels we have never seen.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Animals may be our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it's no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Don't tell me about the scientific advances of the twentieth century. So men are planning a trip to the moon. So computers run every large industry in America. So body organs are being transplanted like perennials. Big deal! You show me a washer that will launder a pair of socks and return them to you as a pair, and I'll light a firecracker.

It's hard enough to figure out how to live ... without worrying about what the hell's normal.

True freedom is moving beyond all clinging and attachments, whether mystical or mundane. It is not a moving beyond enjoyment of either, just releasing the tendency to make demands or have expectations regarding one's experience.