#expectation

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#expectations #conformity

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#expectations

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#noah #truth #wisdom #expectations

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. [...] Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder. Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person, the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We could prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#friendship #betrayal

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#brian-tracy #educational #expectation #expectations #life

Expectation is the mother of all frustration. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#frustration #mother

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#expectation #letters #packaged

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#any #expectations #had #i #never

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that. ↗

— Pat Boone

#behavior #consequences #embodies #even #expectations

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#end #expectations #life #meeting #movies