Quotes About Expectations

The average man thinks that a little falseness goes with beauty.

That's what people are like: they want talent, which is inherently peculiar, yet they absolutely don't want the peculiarities connected to it - perhaps necessarily bound up with it - which they refuse to understand or forgive.

kaip lengva b?ti vis? m?gstamam, guviam, linksmam, šauniam ir s?mojingam, sukti galvas moterims, kai tu neturi ko veikti ir esi laisvas kaip paukštis, kada kiti ateina pas mylim?j? po sunkios dienos, pavarg? nuo visoki? r?pes?i? ir nebe?stengia pasirodyti taip, kaip jie nor?t?.

How crazy it is to be "yourself" by trying to live up to an image of yourself you have unconsciously created in the minds of others.

the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike.

While years of education are often used as a rough proxy for human capital in general, not only is much human capital gained outside of educational institutions,[...]some education even produces negative human capital, in the form of attitudes, expectations, and aversions that negatively impact the economy.

You cannot measure opportunities by outcomes.

Growing up in a very dysfunctional family, I learned early in my life not to have high expectations. As a consequence, my ideas didn't often pan out. I guess I figured that if I didn't expect much, I wouldn't be disappointed. But instead, I ended up being disappointed most of the time.

And I wonder: is there a connection between high expectations and confidence, between low expectations and low self-esteem?

Everyone in the family knows the "invisible" rules, and the behavior of all family members is based on them. But taking those unspoken rules into adulthood can create misunderstandings and misinterpretations when communicating with anyone who is not part of the family.

No debo de estar hecha para vivir grandes historias de amor.

guilt in that guilt is something we're more likely to feel when we violate our own core values, disturbed that something we have done is fundamentally bad and wrong. Shame is what we feel when violating external rules and expectations that society imposes upon us, and it leaves us feeling that we are fundamentally bad and wrong.

shame differs from guilt in that guilt is something we're more likely to feel when we violate our own core values, disturbed that something we have done is fundamentally bad and wrong. Shame is what we feel when violating external rules and expectations that society imposes upon us, and it leaves us feeling that we are fundamentally bad and wrong.

our minds lose their footing when our reality doesn't live up to the way we thought things should go.

Much of the horror of a breakup is the insult to our expectations of how this story was supposed to unfold versus how it actually did.

That you're not missing your former love as much as you're missing the person you thought he or she was.

When human relationships fail . . . they fail because they were entered into for the wrong reason. —Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, Book 1

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

Perfection....it functions as a form of myopia, a preoccupation with self-image that can stunt emotional growth.

It seems that many men, and some women, cannot give up the illusion of possessing another person. The idea of that person—and "idea" is related etymologically to the word "idol"—becomes more important, more potent than the actual living creature. It is much safer to love an idol than a real person who is capable of surprising you, loving you and demanding love in return, and maybe one day leaving you.

Over the years Rita had tailored her expectations of life and others accordingly – anticipating the worst at every turn and managing to find the damp, dark potential in any cloudless sky.

Paulette shook her head and sighed. In her world Grace had failed to meet the responsibility of her own beauty. This was not just a waste but a sin.

I knew her a long time. The truth was we both had certain expectations of each other. In the end, I suppose they were too high.

Do you live by your standards?" "Sometimes...sometimes I do, and other times I do what's expected of me.