Quotes About Expectations

In football in this country, we want to be able to check off every box of a soccer player. You have to be good at this and this and this. Because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded-but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special.

The first time I went to Old Trafford, I was hoping for some light soccer hooliganism, but even the fans in the stand were pretty well behaved.

I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do.

When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.

My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.

With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.

There can be a lot of pressure on girls to dress the way they wouldn't normally dress: on social media, at school, among friends.

I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.

No matter how much you make the world a part of your life through social media, it's never enough. They all want more, and I truly understand why. It's their never-ending love for me that wants to know every detail of my life possible.

I believe we must go further in redefining what United's corporate citizenship looks like in our society... and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.

I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched idea that it had something to do with the Avengers, but I ended up in Social Security.

For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.

As an adult I've developed better social skills; I know how to do a conversation, I know how to do a party. I find them wearying, though, and I like that in lockdown no one expects me to go to them.

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

I don't think I am doing any injustice to my fans by not being accessible socially.

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they're too smart, especially in the sciences - 'No one will date them. They won't be popular.' - don't apply to boys. The boys are being encouraged.

Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.

Too often, our societal norms still set up a false choice between parenting and professionalism.

Girls and boys also face the societal pressure to get married which I find wrong.

Societal pressures can really force girls to look one specific way, when in reality there's not one way to be good.