Quotes About Expectation

Some of you have been waiting for years to read this, the final volume of my autobiography.

Is it gonna take my breath now," Mizzy asked, "or, like, sometime down the road? I'd like to be prepared.

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

I need to know about Yomen, the obligator king." "He's a good man." Vin frowned. "Oh," Slowswift said. "You didn't expect that? Everyone who is your enemy must also be an evil person?

I knew you'd glow

La clave de la felicidad no estaba en congelar todo placer momentáneo y aferrarse a ellos, sino en asegurarse de que la vida produjera muchos momentos futuros que esperar con ganas.

you don't wallow or mope. You aren't allowed that luxury; guilt is for lesser men. You simply need to do what is expected.

So?" Kaladin asked her. "What do you think?" "I think you're going to look extremely silly using it. I can't wait.

Get out. I'll send a bill with a drone. If you survive, I expect it to be paid.

Don't you see? Hope is a good thing—a wonderful thing—but you must have hope in something appropriate. If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, then you stifle your own dreams of the future.

She didn't want them reaching any disappointing conclusions-such as "Ransoms are usually bigger than rewards.

Shallan had not expected Jasnah Kholin to be so beautiful

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.

I don't think so. Beth didn't get any presents.

As it turns out, being able to see what's coming doesn't make it any less painful when it arrives. In fact, knowing probably just upped my anticipatory anxiety and my intolerance for vulnerability. The eggshells weren't on the ground; they were duct-taped to the soles of my shoes.

Group B: "I've simply stopped sending unnecessary e-mails and asked my friends and colleagues to do the same. I've also started setting the expectation that it might take me a few days to respond. If it's important, call me. Don't text or e-mail. Call. Better yet, stop by my office.

We believe growth and learning are uncomfortable so it's going to happen here—you're going to feel that way. We want you to know that it's normal and it's an expectation here. You're not alone and we ask that you stay open and lean into it.

the goal is not "getting comfortable with hard conversations" but normalizing discomfort. If leaders expect real learning, critical thinking, and change, then discomfort should be normalized: "We believe growth and learning are uncomfortable so it's going to happen here—you're going to feel that way. We want you to know that it's normal and it's an expectation here. You're not alone and we ask that you stay open and lean into it.

I'd rather not be joyful than have to wait for the other shoe to drop.

Spirituality is the deep human longing to experience the transcendent in our ordinary life—it's the expectation to experience the extraordinary in the ordinary, the miraculous in the mundane, and the sacred camouflaged in the profane.

What makes a college of social work a unique laboratory for rumbling is the expectation that we must have uncomfortable conversations if we're going to work to empower people and change systems.

It's just so hard to ask sometimes. But it doesn't stop me from expecting.

Playing down the exciting stuff doesn't take the pain away when it doesn't happen. It does, however, minimize the joy when it does happen.