Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably, to a first-round knockout or a 30-point blowout or a fourth-inning rainout.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

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.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

Nothing keeps its promise.

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Some people will always be disappointed.

When I was young, I had a favorite movie star. One day, I saw one of his movies, and it was bad, and he was bad in it. I could tell he didn't care and only did it for the money. I felt betrayed. I never watched another one of his movies again.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.