“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.” SocialLevelsCareersEconomyGrowingCarDependsClothesExpectationsDareDeterminedFactorsConsumersRisingContentmentConsumerismFashionableOverconsumptionNew CarSocial StatusPrestigiousGrowing EconomyFashionable Clothes Author:Paul Brand
“We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.” GivingAmericaUsedNationsSocialPleasureRolesTakenGiving UpExpectationsIntentionInvestmentPrivilegeProfitRefuseStabilityVietnamImmenseHonorableColonyColombiaHelicoptersPeruGuerrillas Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.” ShouldCultureSocialAbilityClassEqualAchievementExpectationsAspirationAffectedMotivatedProspectsSocial Class Book:A Theory of Justice Source: A Theory of Justice
“Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.” RealSelfFallSocialParentTermFiguresAuthorityExpectationsExpectedSelfishDirtyDestructiveExpectingGreedyGrossEldersSelf DestructiveReversalAnti SocialAuthority Figures Author:Jean Liedloff
“Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.” NeedsHumansMadeFactsEarthSocialToo MuchBearsExpectationsInstitutionsAbandonExpectingUtopiaNeurosisMarriage LoveSocial InstitutionsPandas Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.” FeelsLooksFeelingsSocialForeverComfortableLowsStandardsExpectationsAwkwardRetardedLow Expectations Author:Earl Sweatshirt
“Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or whether it was in a social situation. And with kids, you just can't. The rule is you can't really do that because they dictate and they change so much so you just have to go with the flow more and be present and not have big expectations and be amused all the time.” WorldHardBigsKidsSocialSituationBabyFitExpectationsUnderstoodFlowSurroundingsAmused Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.” MenUniverseSocialNaturalGoneExpectationsIntentionUnityCosmicFadedSocial ScienceNatural Science Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind