Quotes About Expectations

Managing computer systems might not generate the daily bliss that defined Thomas's old daydreams, but as he now recognized, nothing would. A fulfilling working life is a more subtle experience than his old fantasies had allowed.

First, it allowed me to connect, at a visceral level, accumulated deep work hours and tangible results. Second, it helped calibrate my expectations for how many hours of deep work were needed per result. This reality (which was larger than I first assumed) helped spur me to squeeze more such hours into each week.

If you're a recent college graduate in an entry-level job, for example, you're much more likely to hear "go change the water cooler" than you are "go change the world.

There are many complex reasons for workplace satisfaction, but the reductive notion of matching your job to a pre-existing passion is not among them.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Tutored by secularists, they want God on their own terms, and prefer a worship service in which there's a lot of smiling.

We have become the revisionist society. We rewrite history in favor of viewpoints. We rewrite ethics in favor of "what's right is what makes you feel good after." Political correctness puts Jesus and Buddha on the same low shelf. Gender inclusivity has us tied up in proper pronouns. Since God goes undefined, His expectations have been missing for some time, and sin is what you do that hurts others.

Look at this - an entire generation of Cinderellas, and there's no glass slipper.

Eventually I realized something. Whenever you tell yourself, This time it will be different, it's as good as a promise that it'll turn out the same as it always has.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men.

Los pretextos los convertimos en "explicaciones lógicas"; los miedos preferimos llamarlos "precauciones acertadas" y las pobres expectativas han pasado a ser "una manera más realista de ver la vida".

Hubiera querido ser torero, pero solo llegué a Premio Nobel

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.

Parents are strange and wonderful creatures. When you're small they seem bright, shiny, and invincible. As you grow, that image starts to fade. It's a sobering moment, but the time will come when you realize they are not the heroes you imagined. They are just people struggling to do the best they can, just the same as you are.You will feel let down, betrayed, even ashamed. This is the time,...when you need to forgive your parents for being human.

if every story ended with a handsome prince, there wouldn't be anybody left in the kingdom to stand around and cheer.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

no expectations meant no disappointments.

My dad says it's because I haven't met the right girl yet, but sometimes I think maybe I've met her five times already but ended up staring at her friend all night and asking her out, the one who would eventually steal eighty dollars out of my wallet to pay for a bikini wax, which I never got to see.

Sometimes I wish I could be the kind of person who has one-night stands, and instead of feeling guilty about it feels empowered by it. But I'm not.