"Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious."

-- Norm MacDonald

#Disappointment Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Promise Quotes

“Fortunately for me I'm a vocalist, I can sing forever. I'm not going to be pretty forever, but I'm going to sing forever!”
“Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.”
“My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.”
“Youâ€™re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.”
“Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.”

Source : "Self Comes to Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.
“Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.”

Source : danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.76, Yale University Press
“For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.”
“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.”

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