#expectation

Expectation is the mother of all frustration. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#frustration #mother

When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood. ↗

— M.E. Thomas

#feminism #feminist #gender #gender-roles #gender-stereotypes

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

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#expectations #integrity #maintain #people #way

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. ↗

— Frances Burney

#contentment #curb #diminish #enjoyment #expectation

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#any #expectations #failure #i #level

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' ↗

— Peter Drucker

#clerks #companies #computers #employment #even

There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#ended #even #expectations #extended #few

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#doing #every #expectation #get #grew

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#anyone #difficult #else #expectations #high