Quotes About Expectations

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

Just because you're beautiful, they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.

Guys think that if a girl is pretty, she's automatically going to say no. Most of the guy's I've gone out with, I've had to make it completely obvious that I'd like them to ask me out. Or, I've had to ask them.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other.... There are always plenty of surprises-and lots of give and take-once you're married.

Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

If you expect perfection from other people, your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumbling and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.