Lowered Expectations Quotes

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

You never know what's going to happen. It's kind of nice to limit your expectations so when something clicks, you go, 'Hey, that's nice. Thank you.'

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

In general, I feel like when I've associated with someone, the association has elevated me and perhaps lowered the other person.

When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.

The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.

I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering marriage with the highest set of expectations that humans have ever brought to the institution. It was really good to find that out. It doesn't have to be the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the moon and the stars - it can just be the moon. It's enough that it just can be what it is.

Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups don't apply to you. Forget about work hard, get an education, posses good values. No, for you, we'll alter the rules by lowering the standards and expecting less.' Expect less, get less.

Snooki is now a published author. I'm blaming Sarah Palin. She lowered the bar.