Changing Expectations Quotes

The future ain't what it used to be.

My mom was like, 'Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.' Now she's like, 'Listen, you need to come up with new material.' All of a sudden, my mom's a critic.

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

Changing people’s expectation is the hardest thing to do.

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.

In the past, individuals and companies envisioned a lifetime mutual commitment. That's not realistic anymore - nor is it in the interest of either party. So both parties need a more adaptable way to engage each other and co-invest over shorter periods of time for mutual benefit.

There weren't many options that came my way after Tum Bin.' Yet, people started expecting too much from me after that film.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I've got enough miles under my belt to know that whatever you envision in your mind, even if it comes true, will only keep a shape in the most general way.

You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.

At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.

It's crazy, it's different. It's what I wanted, but it's different. It's not exactly what I wanted, you know what I mean? If you become an actor you want to be a successful actor; but with success comes a lot of things. Some of it's great! It's great to be able to pay your rent from the work that you do.

I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.

[In 1970:] I don't expect to spend the rest of my life in this business. I damn near did.

It used to be OK to have two or three songs out a year - and those are your singles. Now, they don't want that. They're like, 'OK, I heard that. Next!'

The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom.

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.