Quotes About Expectations

Most of us have participated in the trust exercise in which one person falls back and is caught by a peer. Even if the catch is made a hundred times in a row, the trust is broken forever if the friend lets you fall the next time as a joke. Even if he swears he is sorry and will never let you fall again, you can never fall back without a seed of doubt.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

One thing that separates would-be writers from working writers is that the latter know their work will never match their dreams.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

I always had the idea that when I was older I'd get frightfully clever. I'd get awfully learned, I'd get jolly sage. People would come to me for advice. But nobody comes to me for anything, and I don't know a bloody thing.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

The irony of life is we always compare our fantasies with reality, rather than accepting the reality as is and transforming it into a paradise...."

You will get when you deserve, not when you desire! So Accept Life and Live in the NOW!

You won't do this, my son! I won't have you waste your life. Musicians, artists, criminals, opium addicts ... You'll end up poor and disgraced. I won't have it!

It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Don't limit God to fit in the way that you think that He is going to speak, because just about the time that we think we have Him figured out, He will oftentimes speak to us in another way. God wants us to be in tune with him, and not just in tune with one of the ways that He gives those words.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. Chuck Noll

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

And even though I did not reach the NFL, I sometimes think I got more from persuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, then I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

Nakon što sam obranio doktorat, majka bi me s velikim zadovoljstvom predstavljala ovim rije?ima: »Ovo je moj sin. On je doktor, ali ne od onih koji pomažu ljudima.«

Kada sam ga upitao kada ?u umrijeti, on je odgovorio da ?u vjerojatno biti prili?no zdrav sljede?ih tri do šest mjeseci. To me podsjetilo na moje posjete Disneylandu. Kada biste njihove zaposlenike upitali kada se park zatvara oni bi obi?no odgovorili da je park otvoren do osam nave?er.

Andy, I just gave my students a two-week assignment and they came back and did stuff that, had I given them an entire semester to complete it, I would have given them all A's. What do I do?" Andy thought for a minute and said: "OK. Here's what you do. Go back into class tomorrow, look them in the eyes and say, 'Guys, that was pretty good, but I know you can do better.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.