Top 1200 Societal Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

As women, we're busy. We're under stress and under pressure, and the expectations are so high for us, so the first thing to go is self-care.

Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person or circumstance. ... violence is perpetrated by a small subset of people with favorable views of themselves. ... Viewed in this light, the societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

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

The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.

The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels.

Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'

We all have expectations but sometimes the greatest thing is to be surprised with what happens and to find out that it is quite different from the way you imagined it.

The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.

When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down.

I like to think I have shown I am ready to live up to the expectations of being Everton's number nine.

I like showing people I can do something they wouldn't have pegged me as being able to do. I've always wanted to defy expectations.

When 'Ye Maaya Chesaave' released, there were no expectations. With '100% Love,' I felt, 'Oh my God, it has to work.'

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.

Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.

Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.

I think that every manager who starts work with a team has the best expectations and is giving all he's got to improve immediately.

There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

I feel Arjun is one of the central characters of 'Mahabharata' and people have lots of expectations from me when I started working on the show.

It is an advantage to be born in Kapoor family and to be known by that name, but it also a burden because there are lots of expectations from you.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.

Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.

When we interact with others from a place of compassion without expectations, things are set up to go pretty smoothly.

A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable..The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

My belief is that a positive culture works best because people want to meet or exceed expectations, not demands.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.

When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.

I think it's always nice to have a film where the underdog comes out on top, doing their best, and surpasses everybody's expectations.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

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 of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

I think I have started to take life as it comes and quite uninhibitedly, without being repressed by the expectations of the society.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

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

Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

If you are serious about being a professional chess player, do know what your parents think and what their expectations are from you.

It is very important I live up to my own expectations as far as popularity and knowing that I left my mark on the sport.

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.

The definition of 'safe' is not strictly an engineering term; it's a societal term. Does it mean absolutely no loss of life? Does it mean absolutely no contamination with radiation? What exactly does 'safe' mean?

I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.

I'm going to rely upon the advice of affordable housing experts to make sure we meet the public's expectations.

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.