Patricia McCormick Quotes

I try not to get my hopes up too high with anything, because I'll never be let down that way.

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed.

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

I don't have any expectations.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

I've learned to not have expectations. If you don't expect things from anyone, you can't get let down.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

My worst expectations never happened.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.