Quotes about Expectations
One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls:
- Emily Bronte
Do your best to rein in your desire. For if you desire something that isn't within your own control, disappointment will surely follow; meanwhile, you will be neglecting the very things that are within your control that are worthy of desire.
- Epictetus
When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.
- Jay-Z
If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.
- Andy Stanley
I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
- Joel Osteen
I remember people - not my family - always asking, 'Oh, so are you going to make movies when you're older?' I felt pressured, and that always kind of deterred me.
- Gia Coppola
Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.
- Francis Chan
I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
- John Malkovich
I'm only as good as my next appearance and my next match.
- Bill Goldberg
The biggest fear in my life is being mediocre.
- Johnny Iuzzini
We live in an age of mediocrity.
- Lauren Bacall
Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn