Quotes about Expectations
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
— John Lennon
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
— George Washington
I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.
— Christina Ricci
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
— Euripides
I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.
— Candace Bushnell
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
— Oscar Wilde
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
— Anais Nin
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.
— Leo Buscaglia
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.
— Jason Fried
The quickest way to disappointment is to set unreasonable expectations.
— Jason Fried
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.
— Jason Fried