Expectations Quotes - Page 42

Even in the first world, expectations are not as high for women as they are for men. We get that message subtly, but in the third world, it isn't subtle. Girls are isolated and encouraged not to talk to one another.

I think expectations of Doctor Who should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better.

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

I have a very strong distinction between work and my life. They are not the same and I don't want to ever feel that on a day to day basis that I have to live up to people's expectations, because you never can do that so I don't want to put that pressure on myself.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of a political corrective that demands that the artist fixes the ills of the world.

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.

Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first.

The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.