Quotes About Unrealistic Expectations

#1. Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn't able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.

Lysa TerKeurst

#2. Do I worry about overly retouching photos giving women unrealistic expectations and body image issues? I do. I think that we will soon see a rise in anorexia in women over seventy. Because only people over 70 are fooled by photoshop.

Tina Fey

#3. Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Gary Hopkins

#4. It's practically common sense that men should have unrealistic expectations of women's looks, and yet here we see it's just not true.

Christian Rudder

#5. I know that some poor immigrants from that era had unrealistic expectations and were disappointed, but I don't think my grandparents were disappointed at all, even though they experienced some very hard times during the Great Depression.

Samuel Alito

#6. When we impose unrealistic expectations on ourselves, it's natural to force them on everyone else.

Jen Hatmaker

#7. If you're planning on quitting, first make sure it's not for one of these reasons:
Fear
Discomfort
Anger
Self-pity
Someone's negative opinions
Past failures
Unrealistic expectations

Charles F. Glassman

#8. Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

John Daly

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

Pepper Schwartz

#10. Unrealistic expectations are often the seeds of bitterly stuffed emotions.

Lysa TerKeurst

#11. As you get older, you tend to be a little less patient with people - people who are not prepared, people who have unrealistic expectations, people who make unrealistic demands, people who think they're more special than other people.

Steven Pacey

#12. [ ... ] What's wrong with her?"
"Chronic competence, I should guess. She's been so successful in life that she has unrealistic expectations of others.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It's disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire.

Jennifer Lawrence

#14. Evaluation eliminates frustration.
We should also evaluate unrealistic expectations.
Unrealistic expectations become unmet expectations. And unmet expectations are like kindling wood-it only takes but a spark of frustration to set them ablaze and burn those involved.

Lysa TerKeurst

#15. There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Stephen Covey

#16. Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...

Alan Greenspan

#17. What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?

Lysa TerKeurst

#18. Coffee has given me unrealistic expectations of my productivity
-T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones

#19. You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances.

S.A. Tawks

#20. Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

Judith Guest

#21. That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.

Alexander McCall Smith

#22. Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won't consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better?

Shannon L. Alder

#23. A combination of unrealistic goals, unnecessarily pessimistic expectations, and the wrong incentives for teachers contributes to ensure that education systems in developing countries fail their two main tasks: giving everyone a sound basic set of skills, and identifying talent.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#24. I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation.

Jack Tretton

#25. I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

Emily Procter

#26. In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

Crowder

#27. It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy.

Adam Phillips

#28. Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#29. I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

George Soros

#30. We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

Michael Howard

#31. If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

Alistair Begg

#32. Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing.

Jennifer Senior