Social Expectations Quotes

#1. It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Jerry Saltz

#2. There is certainly some predisposition to wellbeing, based on the research I've looked at. There are people who have a lot more natural discipline. But for most of us, it takes a lot more in terms of social expectations, where, say, we tell people we're going to run a 5K.

Tom Rath

#3. Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely - yet not entirely - forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#4. Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.

Lynn Coady

#5. Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry ensures that moms and dads feel inadequate at every turn.

Jessica Valenti

#6. Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Lynn Coady

#7. Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#8. Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values & priorities

Stephen R. Covey

#9. In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

John Rawls

#10. Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Diane Watson

#11. The landscape for business isn't changing because of social media, it's changing because consumer expectations are evolving.

Brian Solis

#12. ...People so often ignored their gut because of social niceties and expectations. Luckily Dax didn't have that issue; he was barely fucking civilized.

Katie Reus

#13. But what if I did tell people exactly what was going on? What if I valued my own peace of mind more than what other people think of me? Would I end up jobless, friendless, and loveless? Would I vanish entirely?

Melissa Broder

#14. Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.

Jon Ronson

#15. Twitter proved without a shadow of a doubt it is much more than a social network, but a user-defined infrastructure that can be harnessed to change lives and expectations, to share and enhance unique experiences and viewpoints. - Twitchhiker

Paul Smith

#16. Who put me there? WHO PUT ME THERE!

Loki Laufeyson

#17. Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Jennifer Crusie

#18. Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be.

Brene Brown

#19. I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

Earl Sweatshirt

#20. Don't think too much of style.

William Morris

#21. The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded ... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

Allan Bloom

#22. I love video games.

Chandler Riggs

#23. Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

David Eagleman

#24. What is important for me is playing cricket and not thinking about how my Test career is shaping up. I am not into future planning and all. I am concerned about my present and not the future.

Suresh Raina

#25. I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.

Kenneth Kaunda

#26. That would be my theme, I thought: once I came out, the world was all windows.

Paul Monette

#27. O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

Edgar Lee Masters

#28. Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#29. We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Angela Carter

#30. To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her.

Leo Tolstoy