Top 1200 Societal Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations.

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

I try to keep up to my producers' expectations. Sometimes, I can; sometimes, I cannot.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

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

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.

Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone.

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.

If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

We're all diminished and restricted by sweeping statements defining boy and girl, our expectations and disappointments with ourselves, the way we look, what we enjoy, and the choices we make.

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Whether it's a guy getting a big contract, getting a franchise deal, that comes with expectations.

You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?

Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.

With each game's release, I think the expectations get higher and higher for the next, and rightfully so.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

People with Down syndrome can do anything. They just do it at their own pace. Give them a chance, and you will be rewarded beyond your greatest expectations.

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.

We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

I want success. I have expectations and want to look back on a career I can be proud of.

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

Black Girl Magic is a radiant revolution against misogynoir - misogyny directed towards Black women and internalized hatred. Black women are subject to so many societal messages that tell them they are not beautiful, smart, or capable. Black Girl Magic is the conscious unraveling of those toxic concepts through self-love and acceptance. It preaches that despite the pressures I face, I glow more than ever before.

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group.

A brand should live up to the expectations of people; it should deliver what it promises.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.