Quotes about Expectations

It's no surprise, really. Processes are often hard to see—they're a combination of both formal, defined, and documented steps and expectations and informal, habitual routines or ways of working that have evolved over time. But they matter profoundly. As MIT's Edgar Schein has explored and discussed, processes are a critical part of the unspoken culture of an organization.1 They enforce "this is what matters most to us.

It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.

There is no mark on the wall to measure the precise height of women. There are no yard measures neatly divided into the fractions of an inch that one can lay against the qualities of a good mother or the devotion of a daughter or fidelity of a sister or the capacity of a housekeeper.

Virtually all the characters in the novel have failed to live up to their early dreams and ambitions.

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

the possessor of such great expectations,—farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness;

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations.