"Even if my expectations are unreasonable I would prefer to keep them"
"Even if my expectations are unreasonable I would prefer to keep them"
My own expectations are muted, blunted, and distributed.
Steve Portigal • Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
Expectation itself should not be seen as a bad thing. It depends on how you react to your own expectations and is a measure of how much trust you have in life.
Richard Rudd • The Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose
Cynicism results from unrealistic expectations.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong • Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
Managing expectations is crucial to your continued success.
Frankie Fihn • Beyond the Agency Box
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Our degree of satisfaction is critically dependent on our expectations. The greater our hopes, the greater the risks of rage, bitterness, disappointment and a sense of persecution. We are not always humiliated by failing at things; we are humiliated only if we first invested our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then did not reach
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Other people’s expectations of you do not disappear simply because you are overworked.
Tonianne DeMaria Barry • Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life
Either way, the upshot of the expectations research, for me, anyway, is during a period of change, be it big or small, I need to constantly be asking myself if I’ve updated my expectations to match reality, or if I am clinging to old expectations.
David Epstein • "Master of Change"
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