A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic; reformism is basically optimistic.
I hope that teachings about inclusion and love win out over what I personally consider to be a handful of scriptures that reflect the moral expectations of the era in which they were recorded.
I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.
I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.
Expectations run immensely high in Croatia. We may only be a small country, but people expect us to be our best at every major tournament.
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
'Great Expectations', in short, is a more damning account of the mess Dickens himself had made of love than any denunciation on behalf of the outraged wives club could ever be.
Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.
The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.
Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.
When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.
Chefs get sucked into the trap of 'fine dining' because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some customers have been trained to focus their expectations on the trappings and not on the food. It's all a gigantic waste of energy.
We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.
A lot of new stepparents fall into the trap of letting children disobey household expectations in order to gain favor with them.
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.
