Quotes About Expectations

What's wrong with her?" "Chronic competence, I should guess. She's been so successful in life that she has unrealistic expectations of others.

But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Too much in high society is built around the idea of making certain you don't need to trust anyone," Waxillium said. "Contracts, detailed operating reports, not being seen alone with an eligible member of the opposite gender. If you remove the foundation of trust from a relationship, then what is the point of that relationship?

It's worse when they think they're your friend. Gawx, the viziers. They make assumptions. They think they know you, then start to expect things of you. Then you have to be the person everyone thinks you are, not the person you actually are.

People often expect irrational things from their inferiors.

You couldn't live your life getting up and seeing the same things every day. You had to keep moving, otherwise people started to know who you were, and then they started to expect things from you. It was one step from there to being gobbled up.

William Ann had actually had a childhood. She wasn't weak, she was just . . . normal. A woman could be strong without having the emotions of a brick.

It's good by comparison only! Yes, there are worse places, but so long as this hellhole is considered the ideal, we'll never get anywhere. We cannot let them convince us this is normal!

Brandon: How does the character fit into the story, how will people expect them to fit into the story, and how, therefore, can I make them incongruous for those expectations? I'm looking for incongruity. Ask yourself why this character cannot fill the role in the plot that they are expected to fulfill. Ask yourself who would be perfect for this role. I'm not going to use that person.

It's interesting that the woman who wrote that treatise – the one you all practically worship in Alethkar –decided that all of the feminine tasks involve sitting around having fun while all the masculine ones involve finding someone to stick a spear in you. Telling, eh?

Of course," Blushweaver said. "I positively love people who do as they should. 'Should' being defined as whatever I think is best.

Un hombre encuentra una sola moneda en el barro y habla de ello durante días, pero cuando le llega una herencia y es un uno por ciento menor de lo que esperaba, entonces se sentirá estafado.

Pero las expectativas eran como la porcelana fina. Cuanto más fuerte te agarrabas a ellas, más probable era que se rompiesen.

We want to imagine that people are consistent, steady, stable. We define who they are, create descriptions to lock them on a page, divide them up by their likes, talents, beliefs. Then we pretend some—perhaps most—are better than we are, because they stick to their definitions, while we never quite fit ours.

No obliguéis a la gente a hacer honor a vuestros sueños sobre quiénes podrían ser.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.

How can we expect people to put value on our work when we don't value ourselves enough to set and hold uncomfortable boundaries?

Oprah. Her advice is tacked to the wall in my study: "Do not think you can be brave with your life and your work and never disappoint anyone. It doesn't work that way.

Perfectionism is a shield that we carry with a thought process that says this, 'If I look perfect, live perfect, work perfect, and do it all perfectly, I can avoid or minimize feeling shame, blame, and judgement.