#expectation

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#expectations #hopes #dreams

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#feedback #opinions #outspokenness #responses #responsibility

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. ↗

— Norton Juster

#unexpected

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No. ↗

— Alison McGhee

#powerful #silence #silence

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#disappointment #expectation #hope #much #sort

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. ↗

— Tonya Hurley

#expectations #ghostgirl #disappointment

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. ↗

— Julia Glass

#disappointment

Expectation is the mother of all frustration. ↗