Top 1200 Positive Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.

It's important that we challenge the culture of low expectations. You need to believe every child can do well.

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.

At UCLA, there will always be high expectations. That's why you want to play here or coach here.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

I have no choice but give my best, even if it is a small role. There are a lot of expectations from the family and industry.

I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.

I've always said my expectations are higher than what anyone else could put on me.

Just getting to the NFC Championship isn't good enough. Winning the Super Bowl is what the expectations are.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

I'm a very positive person, that's something that's like my character Savannah. She's very positive in everything that she does and I'm the same way in real life. If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it. I just ignore it because sometimes when that happens you can get so involved that it does bring down your day.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

If you are an industry kid, the first film is given to you on a platter. However, the pressure and expectations are immense.

Of course there's going to be expectations when you're playing well in the national team. But you just have to deal with that.

No one can deny there is a lot of pressure when Pakistan and India play, especially with the expectations of the fans at home.

If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.

People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

No matter how well you do, there's always people that are going to hate or have better expectations.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

There's high expectations for Cowboys. There's been some great quarterbacks who have come through that organization.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

It's no secret that the expectations are very high here at Bayern. We are under pressure all the time. But we've often proved we can deal with it.

Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words.

When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.

I am not worried about people's expectations. I just want to get the film right.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

I'm positive about the negative, but a little negative about the positive.

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.