Top 1200 Societal Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Drag has always been very political and challenging of societal norms and other aspects of life.

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

When there's a good fit between skills and expectations, there's what we call compatibility, and we would expect a good outcome. When there's a poor fit between expectations and the capacity of the kid, there is incompatibility, and that's when we see people exhibit challenging behavior.

Girls and boys also face the societal pressure to get married which I find wrong.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society.

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.

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.

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

Honestly, you can't manage expectations. It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with everyone else. And everyone else is going to have expectations, and all you can do is do your job and do your best and be true to yourself.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.

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 think a lot of societal good is already being done with facial recognition technology.

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

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.

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.

The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.

To take women's equality from novelty to norm, we need to change narratives at a societal and individual level.

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.

You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.

Bumble is about equality. We are reverse-engineering traditional societal norms.

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.

The lack of societal and institutional safeguards provides fertile ground for populist movements fueled by fear.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

The societal obsession with appearance is definitely something that weighs on your mind as a model.

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.

Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

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.

Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

The tech industry should make bold commitments to address pressing societal issues.

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.

The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s managed to blend political and societal views with music from the heart.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.

At the root of any societal issue is human truth, especially those truths we find hard to confront.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

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.

As a general rule, I do not think judges should consider current societal preferences when ruling on constitutional challenges.

The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

No single institution or effort can effectively create solutions for societal problems.

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.

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.

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

The marketing business has been just about promoting things, but we don't believe that anymore. There has to be a societal component, too.

My favorite topical tweets are the ones that put a tweet in context so it illuminates a deeper truth or societal trend.

The kosher community tends to follow often several years behind the general societal trends.

The most successful apps have taken a societal problem and built an accessible and democratic solution.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.

Pataal Lok' explores the depths of human and societal immorality through a captivating storyline and exemplary talents.

The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations.

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.