Quotes About Expectations

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We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us." The

Das Sterben erscheint uns als die größte Schwäche überhaupt, schlimmer als Alkoholismus oder Heroinsucht, und in einer Welt, wo man der Faulheit bezichtigt wird, nur weil man sich nicht die Beine rasiert, gilt das Totsein als der ultimative Charakterfehler. Als ob man vor dem Leben weggelaufen wäre – sich einfach nicht genug Mühe gegeben, sein Potential nicht voll ausgeschöpft hätte. Du Drückeberger!

Here's a single girl's secret. The reason you eat dinner with a man on a first date is so you know how he's going to fuck you. A slob who gobbles down the meal, never looks at a bite, you know not to crawl into bed with that guy.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't.

Primero los padres te dan la vida, pero luego intentan imponerte la suya.

She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer.

Worse than alcoholism or heroin addiction, dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. It's as if you've shirked life—simply not made enough serious effort to live up to your full potential.

I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.

You thought what? That because you're a nice guy, my panties will just drop because you deserve to have my thighs around your ears? Fuck you, dude. Being a nice person is a thing you just do, not a price you pay for poonani. I'm not a tollbooth. A kind word and a favor don't mean I owe you naked fun time.

It's good to realize that. Not everybody is meant to be a mother or a father, and the more of those assholes figure that out, the better. But for some reason, our biological urge to reproduce is given this gross social weight. Oh, are you pregnant? When are you going to have a baby? Are you? Will you? Won't you? What's wrong with you? It's like if you're not a breeder, you're a nobody.

everyone likes to be sold easy promises, don't they?

The desire for perfection is like a pit of wet coal silt: it will grab your boots like iron hands and never let you go. 13.

The brief arc of our days, O Sestius, prevents us from launching prolonged hopes.

When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be, all the ways in which you become yourself.

How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good?

It was supposed to say Great Artist on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say such a good teacher/daughter/friend instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL.

It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "such a good teacher/?daughter/?friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL.

It was supposed to say Great Artist on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say such a good teacher/daughter/friend instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is F*** YOU ALL.

But you see, everyone has a part to play. In this theater, I'm a daughter and a sister and a mother—never an artist. I could be, I don't know, Luc Tuymans, and it would mean nothing to them. They allow no room for anything but my duty.

As you walk, notice expectations you may be holding about what birds you may meet, observe them and let them go. Bring your awareness back to sights and sounds in the landscape. Open up to the unexpected in each moment - and accept the possibility of seeing no birds at all.

what's most important to you in your career? The problem is that what we think matters most in our jobs often does not align with what will really make us happy.

The most calamitous failures of prediction usually have a lot in common. We focus on those signals that tell a story about the world as we would like it to be, not how it really is.

But as soon as you find yourself focusing on the tangible aspects of your job, you are at risk of becoming like some of my classmates, chasing a mirage. The next pay raise, you think, will be the one that finally makes you happy. It's a hopeless quest.