Quotes about Expectations

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

If you stop thinking that you must change the world, you lift a tremendous burden off yourself and the people around you. There's no longer this convenient excuse for why it has to be all work all the time. The opportunity to do another good day's work will come again tomorrow, even if you go home at a reasonable time.

The quickest way to disappointment is to set unreasonable expectations.

Nothing ever stops at the quarterly win. There are four quarters to a year. Forty to a decade. Every one of them has to produce, exceed, and beat EXPECTATIONS.

Third, show them work often. This is the best way to chip away at a client's natural situational anxiety. Look, they're paying you big bucks for your work, and it's totally natural for them to begin feeling anxious the moment they send you the deposit. So show them what they're paying for.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.