Quotes About Expectations

Public education puts relentless pressure on its students to conform.

Los buenos profesores desempeñan cuatro funciones principales: motivan a sus alumnos, facilitan el aprendizaje, tienen expectativas con respecto a ellos y los capacitan para creer en sí mismos.

expert teachers fulfill four main roles: they engage, enable, expect, and

Ah si je pouvais moins l'aimer, ne pas être si maladroite, si anxieuse de lui plaire, si je pouvais montrer de l'indifférence. Alors elle m'aimerait, j'en suis sure. Mais on dirait que je lui pèse...Que de fois ne m'a-t-elle pas reproché de l'étouffer?

At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground, silent and patient. We didn't expect this at all. We thought they would fail to understand how democracy works. We thought they would be afraid of the Khmer Rouge. We thought they would passively accept their fate. We were wrong.

O]ur existential anxiety originates not from the objective state of reality but from our inflated expectations. The main problem is the discrepancy between our belief that we can handle everything by ourselves and the fact that, as mortals, we have several limitations. Unaware of this, we try to do the impossible: to control the uncontrollable, to predict the unpredictable, to hold on to the impermanent, and to secure the unsecurable. This illusion of omnipotence becomes our torture.

hell on earth is waking up with expectations every morning and going to sleep disappointed in yourself every night!

It's not my job to "manage" someone else's expectations. It's their job to manage their own expectations. It's my job to do my best and to communicate clearly.

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.

You can buy a Talking Barbie anywhere, but you can't even special order Listening Ken.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.

Sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon.

Education is the one investment that means more for our future because it means the most for our children. Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more: It's a matter of asking more--expecting more--of our schools, our teachers, of our kids, of our parents, and ourselves.

Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.

If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.

When you're young, you don't think about what your life is going to look like after fifty, because we're so programmed to stop at that demographic. The reality is it's becoming a bigger and bigger and bigger demographic.

Women are more complicated when it comes to their affections: They rarely love simply for what is--but for what might be.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

For them, us first-gen Pakistani girls were a forest of green cards. We were groomed like Christmas trees, thinking we were in the beautiful woods, thinking we were growing, but we were just being readied to be cut down. They were coming for us.

It all began to disappear, what my parents wanted from me, who they wanted me to be, the future they had so carefully planned.

When they hoped for a better future for us, they didn't realize they were giving up a chance to have good Hindu, good Nigerian good Mexican daughters.

Money was why my father had to work day and night and was never home. Money was why girls like Shahnaaz got heart-shaped lockets and thought they were better than me. Money was why Saima and I couldn't speak.