Sudha Murty Quotes

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.

You can't get what you want all the time in life.

Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

Expectations are an evil thing.

When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

I fear that the public at home expect too prompt results.