Expectations Quotes - Page 11

• Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

  Ross W. Greene

  Kids, Parent, Difficulty

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When there's a good fit between skills and expectations, there's what we call compatibility, and we would expect a good outcome. When there's a poor fit between expectations and the capacity of the kid, there is incompatibility, and that's when we see people exhibit challenging behavior.

  Ross W. Greene

  Kids, Skills, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best.

  Rachel Bloom

  Thinking, Self Worth, Scary

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Granted, Caught

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is a statement to the obvious, however, that [Barack] Obama - of Obamacare - is the President of the United States, so I don't want people to have [unrealistic] expectations about what may actually become law with Obama - of Obamacare - in the White House. But we intend to keep our commitment to the American people.

  Mitch McConnell

  Commitment, Law, Obamacare

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• We don't have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it's about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.

  Bashar al-Assad

  President, Administration, Different

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• All the baggage that comes with fame, being an actress. The down side to it is the intrusion into your life and this expectation that because they've seen you onscreen, they kind of have a right to you as a human being and personally and in your life.

  Emma Watson

  Baggage, Sides, Actresses

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• [Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then constructing a "Red bureaucracy" that would be one of the worst tyrannies in history, while others would recognize that power lies elsewhere and would serve as its apologists, becoming mystifies, "disablers," and managers while demanding the right to function in "technocratic isolation," in World Bank lingo.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, World, Red

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.

  Ross W. Greene

  Mean, Kids, Challenges

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We have been underserved, underprivileged and unfortunate for far too long. There are no more excuses. It's not enough to have limited progress and allow our expectations and sense of purpose to evaporate. So, if that means we must sacrifice some nights at the club and give up buying the latest designer handbags and sneakers... well then damn, so be it.

  T.I.

  Giving Up, Mean, Sacrifice

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I'm afraid of a couple things. I'm afraid of getting caught up in other people's expectations, because I feel like that's an ongoing battle.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Couple, People, Battle

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's very notable dynamics in all of the collaborations I've done. It's hard to say if one is more important than the other, but if I had to think of all situations and point to one band that I enjoyed most it would be when I was eight years old. I had a band with my little sister and the kid across the street. We sat around all day playing music and it was bliss. I didn't have any expectations or do it for anyone or worry about selling an album. That was really my favorite band. We were called Hot Chocolate.

  Steve Vai

  Kids, Thinking, Eight

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Gambling, People, Instinct

  Source: progressive.org

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• We will never meet our own expectations of public education unless the federal government is willing to play a consistent, long-term role; unless education truly becomes a matter of national policy, not just a matter of national rhetoric.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, Play, Long

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Mean, Light

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

  Alice Walker

  Fall, Important, Slacking

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

  Adam McKay

  Perception, Comedy, Tricky

  Source: filmschoolrejects.com

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• Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.

  Wole Soyinka

  Real, Struggle, Men

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

  Chris Martin

  Albums, Fifth, Previous Work

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• Amazing.” Hi stripped off his shirt, wrung it out. “Score one for your honker.” “Thanks, I think.” I cocked my chin at Hi’s substantial midsection. “Nice abs.” “Yeah, I work out twice a month. No expectations. But stop hitting on me, it’s embarrassing.

  Kathy Reichs

  Nice, Thinking, Work Out

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• I think oldest children have a different mentality or know that there were different expectations of them, and I was not only the oldest child - I was the oldest grandchild of 18 grandchildren. I definitely grew up feeling like there were a lot of people who expected me to do something. But it was a very conservative family, very conservative neighborhood. I'm talking mid- to late '60s when I was growing up there, and so if I had stayed in the Boston area, I think my life would have been radically different.

  Susan Lyne

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

  Patricia Briggs

  Grace, Important, Live By

  Patricia Briggs (1998). “When Demons Walk”, p.236, Penguin

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• And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

  Amy Tan

  Fate, Thinking, Rose

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.131, Penguin

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• So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hermione, Exam, Should

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• If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

  Jodi Picoult

  What If, World, Faces

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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