Quotes About Expectations

since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside.

You betrayed those who had high hopes for you

It was a barbell—play it safe at school and read on your own, have zero expectation from school.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking. You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.

Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

There is actually a law in statistics called the law of iterated expectations, which I outline here in its strong form: if I expect to expect something at some date in the future, then I already expect that something at present.

My son, I am very disappointed in you," he said. "I never hear anything wrong said about you. You have proven yourself incapable of generating envy.

she may have been happier before the Black Swan of her success than after.

not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.

Many are forced by peer and social pressures to do so

Another way to see the beastly aspect of schedules and rigid projections is to think in limit situations. Would you like to know with great precision the date of your death? Would you like to know who committed the crime before the beginning of the movie? Actually, wouldn't it be better if the length of movies were kept a secret?

Si ella una noche no la encendía y se quedaba leyendo un libro en la butaca, él decía: «¿Cómo es que no enciendes la televisión? ¡Enciéndela! Si no, no sirve para nada tenerla. ¡Gino te la ha regalado y tú no la ves! ¡Le has hecho tirar el dinero! ¡Ahora por lo menos vela!».

She wasn't hard-boiled. It was just that she put love on a special plane, where a man without money or looks couldn't move.

My life does not belong to others and I am not here on earth to live up to someone else's expectations.

Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not about you. Life is not about what you want. What you want is not important. Life is about doing what others expect of you. If you accepted this idea, later on you wondered what had happened to your fire. Where had your enthusiasm for living gone?

Men are judged, and are encouraged to judge themselves, by how well they can financially take care of others. Men are socialized to be "servants" fully as much as women; only the forms of culturally encouraged servitude are different. If a man cannot support a woman, he tends to lose stature in her eyes and in his own.

No one owes me the fulfillment of my wishes.

Love is not felt to be real when it is always tied to performance, tied to living up to Mother's or Father's expectations

I naively imagined that marriage could solve all the problems between us.

I can fulfill the expectations of others and yet fail my own; I can win every honor and yet feel I have accomplished nothing;

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later, --oftener sooner than late,-- is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows.

At almost every step in life, we meet with young men of just about Holgrave's age, for whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, even after mucha nd careful inquiry, we never happen to hear another word. The effervescence of youth and passion, and the fresh gloss of the intellect and imagination, endow them with a false brilliancy, which makes fools of themselves and other people.

A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.