Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Life is filled with surprises, you just have to cut down your expectations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to keep up to my producers' expectations. Sometimes, I can; sometimes, I cannot. — Vikram Bhatt Copy Share Image
Love never hurts anybody if people would not show their ego or have any expectations. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
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… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
I like to think I have shown I am ready to live up to the expectations of being Everton's number nine. — Dominic Calvert-Lewin Copy Share Image
Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I never get my expectations high or think everything's gonna be perfect because being perfect is not real and is impossible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The biggest disappointments in our lives are often the result of misplaced expectations. This is especially true when it comes to our… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Audience come with expectations, and our job is to engage them for two hours. We take efforts to make the story more… — Vijay Sethupathi Copy Share Image
People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
We need better measures of people's expectations and levels of satisfaction, of how they spend their time, of their relations with other… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor,… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations,… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging… — Jim Knight Copy Share Image
The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“I had no friends. Was I happy? I was wildly happy. Sitting on my bed, which took up most of the space… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation… His recent tracks still give variety… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's not often you find yourself writing about a game that you haven't seen one kick of. But it's not often that… — Phil Cornwell Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
