Rajneesh Quotes

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

He who awaits much can expect little.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.