Jeff Daniels Quotes

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

I have realised that life is never perfect.

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be.

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.

Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.

Leaders must have patience for those under your supervision. Don't expect too much too soon. Maybe it was easy for you, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy for somebody else. Be sure you have patience.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.