Expectations Quote by Edward de Bono

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

— Sebastian Horsley

We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have…

— Susan Jeffers

Any arguments or conflicts with the loved ones, irrespective of reactions are cause of mismatch of minimum expectations...and the person stands at the non-receiving…

— Santanu Mishra

“Corruption, greed, jealously, would all lead to unhappiness.”

— Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

— Bertrand Russell

My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face.…

— J. Robert Lennon

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

— Monica Ali

More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching…

— Merrill Markoe

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the [external] situation but your thoughts about it.”

— Robert S. Rosenthal