Top 1200 Societal Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Live without expectations and there will be no frustration.

We have to reduce our expectations of England and we have the players to do it

Good things come to those with no expectations.

I'm going to put a lot of expectations on myself.

You live up - or down - to your expectations.

It's always dangerous quoting numbers and expectations.

You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.

I quite like confounding people's expectations.

Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

I want to continue to broaden expectations of what an Asian can be.

False expectations take away joy.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

My expectations for myself were really high.

The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that mutualism between autotrophic and heterotrophic components, and between producers and consumers in the societal realm, coupled with efficient recycling of materials and use of energy, are the keys to maintaining prosperity in a world of limited resources.

'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

Nobody's expectations are going to be more than mine.

If you're joining the Knicks, there's expectations that follow that; there's a lot that comes with it.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

I don't like to have really any expectations for myself.

Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

All of us can meet God's high expectations.

Every single thing you do, you don't really have expectations.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

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. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

You want a job where the pressure is on and expectations are high.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'

But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.

Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.

The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.

Expectations are kind of lethal for art, I think.

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.

If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.

If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.

I don't like to generate too many expectations.

My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

I believe that I have an audience and the challenge is to meet their expectations.

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

Having no expectations is a really good thing.

I have very high expectations out of myself.

I got my first job by exceeding expectations.