“It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.” PeopleBeautifulCertainExpectationsBotherExcluded Author:India.Arie
“You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You may want to prove that you're worthy of high expectations. But I do think that there is a youthful ambition that very much has to do with making your mark in the world. And I think that cuts across the experiences of a lot of people who end up achieving something significant in their field.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantMayEndsKidsCuttingAchieveFieldsProveAmbitionExpectationsMarkWorthyNeighborSignificantHigh Expectations Author:Barack Obama
“I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveIdentityExpectationsLabelsAssociation Author:Paula White
“When you're the lead and on most of the call sheets, some people have expectations of you and whether you like it or not, you kind of set the tone.” PeopleKindExpectationsToneSheetsYou Like It Author:Mike Colter
“I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayHumansFictionExpectationsIdealsHuman LifeGarbageIdeal World Author:Charlie Kaufman
“Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.” PeopleNeedsMadeUseProblemSidesResultsEconomicPerspectivePromiseExpectationsVoteCleverRisingSlogansMisleadPersonal ExperiencesDissatisfactionKhomeini Author:Akbar Ganji
“What happens is people - especially, I think, audiences in the United States - people confront new things a little bit afraid. It's like when you're a kid and your mother puts something on your plate you never ate before. I think that American audiences are very much like that, and when they can accept something new they can accept the next new thing, it's incredible. And what happens is that their expectation of what things should be is elevated, and that's really terrific for us.” PeopleThinkingShouldLittlesStatesHappensKidsMotherNextBitsUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesAudienceLittle BitExpectationsIncrediblesSomething NewNew ThingsPlatesTerrific Author:Paula Scher
“I've done far too many things that I felt were going to be genius that weren't and I've done some things that I didn't think were going to be much that really connected with people. So expectations are left at the door. But hope exists all the time.” PeopleThinkingDoneLeftFeltDoorsGeniusExpectationsConnected Author:Colin Farrell
“Inevitably it's always a set-up; you go somewhere, bring your own expectations, you think you have an idea of what you want to do but then the minute you get there everything changes, so trying to work with people who are able to ride in a lot of different conditions, sub-par conditions, people who are able to make the most of any situation.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingIdeasDifferentAbleSituationMinutesConditionsExpectationsWhat You WantThings Change Author:Travis Rice
“Political populism always poses a great danger because it disorients people, creates excessive expectations or, on the contrary, prioritises objectives that are clearly not priorities or are simply impossible to achieve.” PeoplePoliticalImpossibleAchieveDangerExpectationsContraryPrioritiesObjectivesPopulism Author:Vladimir Putin
“I didn't listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn't let it enter my brain. It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that. When you are in charge of a top club, where expectations are high you have to deal with that.” PeopleJobsDealsBrainHalfExpectationsCriticismClubs Author:Alan Pardew
“When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven editions of a print run of about 400. So the first print run out of Boston for a first book of poems was 400 for a country that had fifty million people in it. Now a first print run for a first book is maybe 2,000? So that's a five-time increase in the expectation of readership. Probably the audience is almost exactly the same size as it was in 1900, if you just took that one example.” PeopleIfsFirstsBookCountryRunningMillionsAudienceFiveExampleExpectationsIncreaseSizeFiftyPrintBostonElevenEmilySellersReadershipBest Sellers Author:Robert Hass
“I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp down expectations. If you listen to my stump speeches, if you listen to what I said at Grant Park, I kept on saying, "Look, this is not just about me, this is not going to happen in one year, or one term, or even one presidency." And we tried to layer into everything we were saying a sense of hope, but also realism.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsLooksSaidDoneHappensTermSituationSpeechExpectationsParksGrantsRealisticLayersRealismPresidencyStumps Author:Barack Obama
“The vast majority of things parents and kids get in conflict over are highly predictable. We're disagreeing about the same expectations the kid is having difficulty meeting every hour, every day, every week. Because it's predictable, we can have these conversations proactively. That is very hard for people.” PeopleHardKidsParentHoursWeekConversationConflictExpectationsDifficultyMajorityMeetingsPredictable Author:Ross W. Greene
“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.” PeopleKidsChallengesPoorFitSkillsBehaviorExpectationsCapacityOutcomesExhibitsCompatibilityIncompatibility Author:Ross W. Greene
“I'm afraid of a couple things. I'm afraid of getting caught up in other people's expectations, because I feel like that's an ongoing battle.” PeopleFeelsCoupleBattleExpectationsCaughtCaught UpOngoingCouple Things Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.” PeopleExpectationsCaughtGrantedCaught UpDon't Take Anything For Granted Author:Jim Gaffigan
“We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.” PeopleExpectationsInstinctGamblingSwarms Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“It is a statement to the obvious, however, that [Barack] Obama - of Obamacare - is the President of the United States, so I don't want people to have [unrealistic] expectations about what may actually become law with Obama - of Obamacare - in the White House. But we intend to keep our commitment to the American people.” PeopleWantMayStatesLawHousePresidentWhiteUnitedUnited StatesExpectationsCommitmentObviousStatementsBarackWhite HouseObamacareUnrealistic Expectations Author:Mitch McConnell
“John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.” PeopleThinkingWantedMotherValuesStrongLuckyExpectationsPursueStrong WomenHigh Expectations Author:Caroline Kennedy
“When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments have conspicuously failed to show rational behavior. Macro evidence certainly suggests deviations from rationality, but I don't want to say the rationality hypothesis is completely wrong. If you have any introspective idea or experimental idea about people's behavior, it seems to be incompatible with the really full scale rational expectations.” PeopleIfsWayWantTryingLooksIdeasShowsSeemsBehaviorExpectationsEvidenceEconomicsTestsScalesExperimentsRationalRelatedRationalityHypothesisIntrospectiveDeviationMacro Author:Kenneth Arrow
“Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people. Elections should just be a bi-product.” PeopleShouldGovernmentRunningCommonProductsDemandExpectationsElectionMeetings Author:Narendra Modi
“Most people have always done better than their parents, and their parents have done pretty well, and there's always been a sense of expectation or entitlement. It's part of being an American in a sense.” PeopleWellsDoneParentExpectationsEntitlement Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.” PeopleExpectationsRealistic Author:Warren G. Bennis
“I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than of what a feminist would look like. They assumed that if you could get a man, you wouldn't want anything else - what else could you possibly want? So that feminists who were talking about such things as equal pay must be doing so because they were unable to get a husband to support them, and therefore they must be ugl - this was the sort of train of thought. So because I looked different from the stereotype, then people would comment.” PeopleIfsMenWantLooksDifferentRememberPayTalkingSupportHusbandEqualExpectationsTrainFeministCommentStereotypeLooking GoodEqual PayTrain Of Thought Author:Gloria Steinem
“There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really conflicted person. Some people would say he's masochistic . I don't really know, but I've always loved his reverence and his mindfulness.” PeopleKnowsWayPersonsApproachMindfulnessExpectationsSurpriseSaintPleasantZeroReverenceMasochisticPleasant SurprisesSaint Francis Author:Denison Witmer
“I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the worst public schools in Baltimore, with kids most people would write off because of their backgrounds. But, when I set high expectations, at the end of the day, these kids went from scoring at the bottom on standardized tests, to scoring at the top, despite their unfortunate circumstances.” PeopleWritingYearsEndsFactsKidsSchoolThreeWorstCircumstancesExpectationsTestsBottomBackgroundsDespiteThe End Of The DayThree YearsUnfortunateGroundedPublic SchoolBaltimoreUnshakableHigh ExpectationsUnshakable FaithUnfortunate Circumstances Author:Michelle Rhee
“Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, "I can't believe this happened to me." And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, "I must be on the wrong path." But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path?” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveKindI CanIdeasHappensFacesPovertyPathHappenedStreetsOrdinaryExpectationsAbsolutesEverydayIllnessBest ThingsWhat IfContemptCatastropheOrdinary PeopleWrong PathEveryday Things Author:Caroline Myss
“I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.” PeopleSaidExpectationsUnrealistic Expectations Author:Bette Midler
“I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're gonna eliminate racism like that. After Obama's elected how could there be any racism?".” PeopleThinkingYoungRacismExpectationsUnrealistic Expectations Author:Barack Obama
“As Muslims, we must have an active presence based on ethical and moral consistency. We need to be very vocal, to inform people, to demonstrate when necessary. We need to write so that the people understand that what they are getting from the media and politicians is biased and not accurate. And this is true especially when it comes to some communities within the U.S. or with respect to the Middle East and Africa. This is what I am expecting from a new generation of leaders: Meet these expectations of moral consistency.” PeopleNeedsWritingCommunityLeaderMoralGenerationsMiddleMediaPoliticianExpectationsActiveEastEthicalMiddle EastExpectingAccurateConsistencyVocalNew GenerationBiased Author:Tariq Ramadan
“When I started criticizing Donald Trump when he got more popular on the right, one of the most things that I discovered was how many people were mad at me for not living down to their expectations. There are a lot of pundits on the right who think their job is to be a cheerleader for their team. That is not my job. My job is to tell the truth as I see it, and that is gotten a lot of people angry.” PeopleThinkingJobsTeamTrumpExpectationsAngryMadTelling The TruthCriticizeCheerleaderPundits Author:Jonah Goldberg
“The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form, for action in a film, for certain emotional content. We wanted to remove those things and see if we could still make a film that was a beautiful film experience, with deliberately removing things many people would expect.” PeopleIfsStillsActionWantedBeautifulFilmFormCertainEmotionalLimitsExpectationsExperimentsNarrativeRemoveSurrealism Author:Jim Jarmusch
“God and the universe said to me one day, "You're only going to get what's good for you." That's kind of how I try to look at things. Isn't that true, when you look back at things? "Ooh, I'm glad I didn't get that!" You get more philosophical when you get older, with the more life experiences you have. But I don't have any bad feelings towards anybody that was ever involved in any of that stuff, because I don't think that people usually set out to hurt you. I think that hurt is all manufactured by yourself and your expectations.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindFeelingsUniverseHurtOne DayExpectationsPhilosophicalGladLife Experience Author:Louie Anderson
“When we came to the network, it was a very interesting time where Portlandia had just come on the air and had been very, very successful. I think people had Portlandia-sized expectations for Comedy Bang! Bang!, especially after the first episode was sampled by quite a large number of people. I remember getting the ratings after the first episode, and the network was over the moon about it. And then the second episode tanked so hard. Like, no one watched it. It was a resounding, "Hey, a bunch of people tried your show, and they all hate it!"” PeopleThinkingRememberHateInterestingSuccessfulComedyMoonExpectationsVery Interesting Author:Scott Aukerman
“We have different expectations for different groups of people. We tend to modulate the degree with which we're forgiving or punitive depending on how well we know folks, or how much we consider them peers, or how much social capital we've invested in them. That has to do with race, class, gender, and socioeconomic status. We have a tendency to bend over backwards to forgive folks we think of as part of "the us." The question of who we define as "the us" is a lot of what constitutes how we punish who we punish.” PeopleThinkingDifferentExpectationsForgivingGenderBackwards Author:Chris Hayes
“Personally, I hate waiking the red carpet. You are expected to conform to every single expectation. People will say, "Try as hard as you can not to sweat on the red carpet." Meanwhile you are super nervous, and there are tons of camera flashes, and people are screaming your name. It's not fun - not for me, at least!” PeopleTryingHateFunExpectationsI HateNervousConformCarpetRed Carpet Author:America Ferrera
“I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got better - everybody got more interested and excited. DeNiro isn't waiting for other people to create the environment that he wants, he brings it along with him.” PeopleTogetherFilmWaitingEnvironmentStrangePhotographyExpectationsExcitedComplainingMediocreGreat Expectations Author:Ethan Hawke
“People in long-term, monogamous relationships are crushed by the expectation that a partner is going to provide everything they are looking for and wondering why they are dissatisfied when they have four of the ten boxes checked.” PeopleWonderExpectationsCrushedDissatisfied Author:Steve Almond
“We're living in a world where conservatism is on the rise - from America to Europe and in Singapore, too. People are finding it hard to accept the 'other': those who are different, or who don't conform to societal expectations or norms.” PeopleWorldDifferentAcceptingExpectationsConformNormConservatism Author:Ivan Heng
“Eighty-three percent of our students are Pell Grant-eligible, which means, by and large, that their families have a dysfunctional relationship with wealth and with work. So if you have never been in an environment where you have come to understand the expectations of a career, because all you have ever seen is people be underemployed or unemployed, then how are you going to learn that? Our students are getting two forms of education. They're getting a rigorous liberal arts training, and they're also getting real world work experience.” PeopleWorldMeanArtRealWealthEnvironmentStudentsTrainingExpectationsReal WorldLiberal Arts Author:Michael Sorrell
“Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most of what's in your own life, hopefully, is exactly that. Friendship and love and passion for movies and cartoons and comic books, whatever it is that you love. Most of the way we live our lives involves looking for pleasure and beauty and happiness and affection. Real artists don't use reflexive clichés about things. It's about honoring the reality of people's lives, which defies conventions and clichés and expectations. People are interesting, period.” PeopleThinkingBookRealRealityArtistPassionPleasureInterestingExpectationsAffectionUglyHopefullyComicComic BookCartoonThink Of YouLove And Friendship Author:Daniel Mendelsohn
“Over the years, I've had fairly benign record companies who gave me a lot of rope, but in spite of that, there's still restrictions and expectations. It's nice to be at the cottage-industry size, which I think is kind of the business model of the age anyway. It's the way to be. The Internet makes a lot of that possible. Having a loyal fan base is also very useful to keep me operating; people can find your website, and the venues that you're playing at, the merchandise you have for sale, all that kind of stuff. It's great to be able to reach the audience in a more direct way.” PeopleThinkingKindAgeAudienceNiceInternetExpectationsDirectSpiteLoyalWebsite Author:Richard Thompson
“People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.” PeopleShouldLooksHas BeensHardTroubleKingsExpectationsShould HaveParksLook At MeLutherShould Have BeenRosa Author:Rodney King
“There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.” PeopleWorldProblemRunningSchoolPastAchieveYouthExpectationsHigh SchoolSuicideTrainHigh Expectations Author:James Franco
“When I went, I hadn't had very much time to have hopes or expectations. I knew very little about Nashville, and I think that was probably good. When I was there, I got really lucky - I ended up with people that just were amazing musicians, and that's the Nashville that I experienced. That is a big part of Nashville - there's a lot of musicians, and that makes it a very special place and shapes the city.” PeopleThinkingSpecialLuckyMusicianExpectationsHaving Hope Author:Anna Ternheim
“Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one.” PeopleThinkingExpectationsFeel Good Author:Lloyd
“I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.” PeopleWantBookExpectationsInvites Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I'm a person who's coming New York because of the magnetism of the people. I'm not coming because of expectations. I'm coming here because it's a very natural way of sharing. That's the reason. And also friends - I love to be with people I can't meet in Warsaw.” PeopleReasonNaturalExpectations Author:Pawel Althamer
“I see prenuptial agreements as a positive - not only from a professional standpoint, but from a personal one as well. I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.” PeopleThinkingImportantTogetherDifficultMarriedExpectationsDiscussionGetting MarriedLiving Together Author:Laura Wasser