Sentences with phrase «lower peoples expectations»

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«Psychologists and other mental health experts often advise people to set low expectations for their life to ensure they are not disappointed,» Siebold writes.

In stark contrast to the pressure to succeed that plagues young people today, gen X was raised on criticism and low expectations.

While there are certainly many people with serious sleep problems whose account of their suffering shouldn't be doubted and who need medical solutions, science suggests that there are also plenty of folks with milder sleep issues who would benefit from simply chilling out and lowering their expectations.

«People who have talked to Apple about the watch said that Apple employees have set low expectations,» Lessin wrote.

People located in non-urban areas tend to have a lower cost of living and therefore have a lower salary or hourly expectation,» she said.

People who are now in their 40s or early 50s are lowering their expectations of when they can afford to retire, but the reality is that will likely mean retiring at 65 rather than 62.

For George Bush, people's expectations have always been naturally low.»

Those stocks would get crushed, we're buying stocks that are have huge cash flows, people have low expectations for them that's why we're getting them so cheap and so we know pay for high expectations in the long book, so when the low — bad news comes in, we didn't pay for high expectations so our longs tend to hold up better, our shorts are getting killed, great spreads and bad markets.

And he believed that by backing up his commitment to lower inflation with a new policy framework, he would break people's inflationary expectations.

When existing home sales missed expectations a few months ago, and everyone blamed low inventory, I warned that the same people would not give -LSB-...]

That being said, I believe partnering up can be great if you find a good match — but people need to be lucid — eyes wide open and keep their expectations low so as not to be disappointed.

Underlying the presence of physical barriers in churches and seminaries is a set of still - perpetuated attitudinal barriers — primarily the following: (1) low expectations on the part of both pastors and laypeople of just what a disabled person can do; (2) a psychologically defined negation, usually unconscious, reflecting the Jamesian response of «fight or fly»; (3) simple lack of experience with handicapped persons, and consequent embarrassment; (4) biblically derived sanctions, expressing thousands of years of tradition.

Does the ending in divorce of many low - conflict marriages suggest that people have inappropriate expectations of marriage?

They run the organization with a what's good for the organitazion in mind and often the people who want to ask questions, who struggle to meet performance expectations -LCB- the christian walk is reduced to performance giving, serving - the church organization, keeping sins off a particular list (ignoring the heart) and an ability to regurgitate spoon fed theology -RCB- the low performers are «disciplined» into performing outwardly regardless of inward conditions or are left in the dust of the organizations progress.

«I think a lot of people's expectations are lower than ours,» he says.

I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew

@Jimbeam that story was not credible.Ut was made up.Also your questions have are not even in line with what am saying.You are asling this and that and bla bla bla.It was needless.Everybody who is here wants Arsenal to achieve success regardless of whether we have average players or not because that's what we as fans do.The thing I was trying to say is that the same people who here who are nagging and crying are the same people who claimed to have lowered their expectations for the transfer window.So why all this talk.Listen I'll even want Arsenal to even have a world class eleven and when we don't win the cup with that world class eleven i wonder who'll be blamed after that.The critical thinkers here will tell you the main thing worrying this club is not even about the players.It's all summed up in one word known as philosophy.

You can not blame people for expecting the Gunners to get rolled over at Stamford Bridge but that lower expectation on the shoulders of the Arsenal players might just help us to get the job done.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

I think that people's expectations now are so low, I don't think they really even care how he plays.

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I'm hoping that people are excited about the challenge but am remembering to keep the expectations low:) Just wondering if the tool cards will be available as a download, as I am in Canada and the shipping cost works out to be more than the cards!

I just have such low expectations of people that I would be hard pressed to believe that someone would be able to stay in their child's life and not try to parent the child.

Younger people have lower expectations than their elders and a lower view of the integrity of both politicians and journalists.

«The full extent of the potential human rights breaches is likely to be masked by the fear of complaining and the low expectations about the quality of homecare that many older people believe they are entitled to,» the EHRC report stated.

As he told the Standard: «Some people, in a friendly way, tried to lower my expectations.

Brexit triggered a fall in the value of the pound for the simple reason that people across the world had lower expectations of what the UK's future would entail as a result of it.

He seems impressive because expectations were so low: people in the know in the party (i.e. people who actually know him as opposed to the party activists who do not) are surprised that he was able to do anything at all.

«People who started out with very low expectations of acupuncture — who thought it probably would not help them — were more likely to report less benefit as treatment went on.

The key finding was that young people with higher marital expectations in 2000 had lower levels of delinquent activity in 2001.

Who knows, if I can lower people's expectations a little, maybe I can show what I am capable of in my own time?

Even now, society tends to have very low expectations of people with disabilities.

In terms of economic language these people set their «reservation value» of a mate low in expectation of never marrying if they set it any higher.

Yes you will need to go on A LOT of dates to find the right person so have very low expectations.

While for both groups the expectation of marriage ranks low, women are still almost twice as likely as men to say that it's the reason people visit dating sites (7 percent versus 3.7 percent, respectively).

If you lower your expectations, and just see internet dating as a way to meet new people and have a fun and different evening, then you won't be disappointed.

And I disagree about people needing to lower their expectations.

Wild Hogs narrowly surpassed my low expectations, but I have trouble imagining just what great fun all the people who saw it, recommended it, and saw it again got out of it.

People just need to lower their expectations a little bit whenever the Big N announces a brand new game.

She has defense mechanisms and really low expectations of the people around her,» says Plaza.

Those are the good factors in making Life of the Party, but seeing how the people behind it usually do the same style of comedy that's rarely funny in the first place, my expectations were fairly low from the start.

Too many people ignore these international comparisons and set low expectations for U.S. students and their schools.

Moe argues that this may be a result of people's holding low expectations of schools to begin with: «Parents who are poorly educated and have low expectations are more likely to be satisfied with their local schools, whatever their quality, than other parents are.»

They've internalized expectations that are so low that, before we do the work of educating, we must do the work of loving these young people back into their full humanity, to believing they are much more than they have been told they are.

Too many people ignore international comparisons and set low expectations for U.S. students and their schools.

«On the other hand, often in a low - SES school for example, the focus is more on, if you like, student welfare, wellbeing — rather than the academic side — and people have low expectations for those students.»

Lowered expectations and appeals to self - centeredness are among the cultural factors that feed into the demoralization of today's young people, writes the Brown University professor William Damon in Greater Expectations: Overcoming the Culture of Indulgence in America's Homes expectations and appeals to self - centeredness are among the cultural factors that feed into the demoralization of today's young people, writes the Brown University professor William Damon in Greater Expectations: Overcoming the Culture of Indulgence in America's Homes Expectations: Overcoming the Culture of Indulgence in America's Homes and Schools.

Some people said I was lowering my expectations.

Many people (including influential educators) still think that a large Pygmalion effect is out there, waiting to be tapped if only we can get teachers to shed «the soft bigotry of low expectations,» as the rhetoric of No Child Left Behind puts it.

«These people represent the powerful and badly misguided lobby who are responsible for the devaluation of exams and the culture of low expectations in state schools,» he said.