#expectations

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

#fabricated #felt #fifties #i #living

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity. ↗

— Olivia Goldsmith

#expectations #happiness #insensitivity #low #low expectations

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#i #live #mine #up #world

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happiness #reality #reality

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#disappointed #expectations #film #good #pleasantly

He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life. ↗

— Anne Frasier

#life #life

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#based #believes #coming #expectations #flooded

I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win. ↗

— Dara Torres

#experience #maturity #perspective #age

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#enough #expectations #general #going #holidays

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life... ↗

— Tayeb Salih

#bourgeoisie #education #expectations #society #education