Top 1200 Unrealistic Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.

In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

I think if characters change too much, it's unrealistic; their whole fabric of who they are as a person doesn't just disappear.

I remember 'The Cosby Show,' but that was something completely different. Comedy. There was a lightness to it and a sort of unrealistic perfection.

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

The definition of disappointment in life is expectations minus reality equals disappointment. The only two solutions you have to get over disappointment is to either alter your reality or alter your expectations.

I think it's unrealistic for public-sector employees to believe that they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages.

I have allergic reactions: it triggers my gag reflex when I read unrealistic dialogue from a teenager.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

Neoliberalism emerged by defining itself against what it labelled as an unrealistic and unsustainable programme of social welfare and public spending.

People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.

No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, millennia of evidence also indicates that needed attempts to stabilize such societies run counter to the expectations of the populace and of interest groups. For that reason, such attempts at stabilization frequently fail.

Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.

I've been playing quarterback for a long time, and there's a ton of expectations no matter where you are and how you got there. That's part of the game and part of the position. That's part of the reason I love playing the position, is the expectations and the pressure and all of the outside things that come along with it.

Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.

I had a little bit of expectations just to be not terrible, because you can't be named so similar to a sport and not be at least adequate at that sport. I don't think there's been expectations to be really good, because my parents never put that kind of pressure on me, but I had to be at least decent.

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation.

At a certain period in time, the fashion industry was portraying this image of a totally unrealistic woman, women who are not allowed to be themselves.

This is UCLA. The expectations are higher here than anywhere. The amount of success both in terms of championships and wins as well as success off the floor has been second to none in college basketball. I knew that when I took this job. I know the expectation level, and no one has higher expectations than I do.

One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic.

It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.

Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that much thought. Men come into it with reluctance about being capsized or trapped or whatever their fear is. When you check in later, women are disappointed because their expectations have not come to pass, and men are pleasantly surprised.

Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time.

The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form, for action in a film, for certain emotional content. We wanted to remove those things and see if we could still make a film that was a beautiful film experience, with deliberately removing things many people would expect.

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.

I cannot stand watching daily soaps that have a lot of rona-dhona and unrealistic drama in them.

There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

Cinema is a platform open to all kind of views and it is very unrealistic to think that everyone can be happy.

I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.

I am not arguing for a utopian society; equal opportunity for all, though ideal, is unrealistic.

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.

You have to have honesty to the product. You have to meet consumer expectations. You give them value for their money and give them a product that they need. I don't see anything wrong with all these things. And I don't think it's a bad thing to meet consumers' expectations.

I want to put expectations on our team that are high. That's kind of the way I've always been, and I want to put those expectations on our team as well.