#expectation

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #relationships #love

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand. ↗

— John Ortberg

#expectation-s #leadership #art

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times. ↗

— Henry James

#greatness #occasion #self #truth #nature

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#law #order #respect #respect

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#expectations #hopes #dreams

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#broken

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you. ↗

— Jeff Kinney

#kids

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#daughters #expectations #fathers #ideals #perception

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect. ↗

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

#observation #observations #perception #perception

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#feedback #opinions #outspokenness #responses #responsibility