Quotes About Fulfilling Expectations

#1. Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; they make room in their relationship for these attractions rather than allow them to cause anxiety, jealousy, and unreasonable expectations.

Tristan Taormino

#2. My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. The public always wants to be told.

Edwin Lefevre

#4. The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

Mark Victor Hansen

#5. There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

Christopher Peterson

#6. Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.

Sriveena Dhagavkar

#7. Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Stephen Covey

#8. I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

Alice Walker

#9. First they applaud you. Now you have become VICTIM. Just to get their applause, you will lie more and more. You will start fulfilling their expectations and you will become more and more unreal. This is a vicious cycle.

Osho

#10. One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

Napoleon Hill

#11. pessimism works because it's self-fulfilling: if you're a slacker with low expectations, they'll probably be met.

Peter Thiel

#12. Dare for a greater life, you will get it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song.

Alain De Botton

#14. I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#15. Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

Irving Townsend

#16. I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Paul O'Grady

#17. The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

Robert Silverberg

#18. Having five cats around the house helps me have no expectations. They are not goal-fulfilling creatures in any human sense. There is little one can expect of a cat.

Clarice Bryan

#19. Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling.

Vern Law