Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations. Votes: 3
Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations. Votes: 3
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. Votes: 1
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations. Votes: 1
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions. Votes: 1
Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. Votes: 1
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward. Votes: 1
Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking. Votes: 0
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. Votes: 4 Bruce Lee
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. Votes: 5 Willie Nelson