Quotes About Lowering Expectations

#1. If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer, and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.

Jeb Bush

#2. Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

Colson Whitehead

#3. Sorry, I think I'll pass. You're not my type."
"I'm everybody's type, he says. You just have to realize it.

J.C. Reed

#4. When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

Ivan Pavlov

#5. Therefore you can never lose hope-hatikva-because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Cassandra Clare

#6. He knows that behind each false door is a drop. And if we enter it, we will fall. In His mercy, He keeps those false doors closed.

Yasmin Mogahed

#7. She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

Holly Black

#8. A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.

Reid Hoffman

#9. Sometimes my entire life has felt like one long exercise in lowering my expectations.

Melissa DeCarlo

#10. I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if ... if only there were no other people in the world.

Anne Frank

#11. Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Diana Ross

#12. You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.

Hugh Bonneville

#13. Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

John Dewey

#14. When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

Ira Glass

#15. What are others worth that they have the nerve to sneer at any human being?

Graham Greene