Quotes About Expectation

The stealth intention is a self-protection need that lurks beneath the surface and often drives behavior outside our values. Closely related is the stealth expectation—a desire or expectation that exists outside our awareness and typically includes a dangerous combination of fear and magical thinking. Stealth expectations almost always lead to disappointment, resentment, and more fear.

I'm so excited about the possibility. I'm trying to stay realistic, but I really hope it happens.

believe that feedback thrives in cultures where 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.

Both disappointment and regret arise when an outcome was not what we wanted, counted on, or thought would happen.

PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER "Now is the moment you've been waiting for. Some have been waiting their entire lives. It is time to put your dress together. It is time to prepare for the future." —Excerpted from Creating the Illusion by Madame Michel, Paris, 1954 Forty-Nine The bride

Fake hope would only serve up more disappointment later.

Jesus expected the most of every man and woman; and behind their grumpiest poses, their most puzzling defense mechanisms, their coarseness, their arrogance, their dignified airs, their silence, and their sneers and curses, Jesus sees a little child who wasn't loved enough—a least of these who had ceased growing because someone had ceased believing in them.

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?

Some day. The most hopeful phrase in man's language, the most promising in his thoughts, the most unfulfilled.

Edward Fane climbed heavily into bed, with the boredom of a man who has long learned to expect no pleasure there.

I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: 'It's there.' Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. Looking around the rug one thing's for sure: it's here.

I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.

If we proceed like the child does with the puppy, if we examine what is hidden in things and persons, in everything that is stimulating in this colorful world, then we will uncover nothing more than that kind of atomized sawdust with which 'science' for a long time has been feeding those hungry for knowledge. Everything real looked at in the light disappoints. The forms lose their shine, color, and aroma, like a fruit that someone has grasped too strongly.

One can never wait too long.

Neither you nor I believe in miracles. If they happen, they happen. But believing in them, expecting them – that's nothing more than wasting the time alloted to you.

At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he

On se connaît si mal, se dit-elle confusément avant de s'endormir dans son lit. On a beau se dire plus jamais... Dans le fond, c'est peut-être ça qui nous aide à vivre... L'inattendu. Ce qui arrive contre toute attente...

C'est comme d'attendre Dieu ou Godot, sauf qu'à la place, c'est Jansson qui arrive.

A man walks into a library and says, 'I hope you don't have a book on reverse psychology.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people's response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.

Often love is offered to you, but you do not recognize it. You discard it because you are fixed on receiving it from the same person to whom you gave it.

Christian leadership is a dead-end street when nothing new is expected, when everything sounds familiar and when ministry has regressed to the level of routine.