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  • I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

    "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.
  • The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

    John C. Maxwell (1996). “Breakthrough Parenting”, Focus on the Family Pub
  • I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations

    Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.284, Broadway Books
  • As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

    Children   Men   People  
    "Michael Gove's 'anti-Mr Men' speech in full". Speech in Brighton College by Michael Gove, politics.co.uk. May 09, 2013.
  • Its a call-to-action to rise from the dead and actually live. Were born spiritually dead, and Im calling for everyone to become spiritually alive. Secondly, dont wait until later to live the way you were created. God created you to honor Him, find joy, and serve others. Dont sleep on that. Lastly, rise above the low expectations people have.

  • I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

    Sports   Golf   Thinking  
  • When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

    Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.897, Simon and Schuster
  • I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

  • That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  • Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

    "Joshua Ferris Interview: Rock Star in the Book Store". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.
  • Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

  • I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

    "Fictional character: Walter". "Sleepless in Seattle", www.imdb.com. 1993.
  • I'm the master of low expectations.

    "Bash: President says he builds relations on instinct" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2003.
  • The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

    "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 285, 1990.
  • A married guy is responsible for everything, no matter what. Women, thanks to their having been oppressed all these years, are blameless, free as birds, and all the dirt they do is the result of premenstrual syndrome or postmenstrual stress or menopause or emotional disempowerment by their fathers or low expectations by their teachers or latent unspoken sexual harassment in the workplace, or some other airy excuse. The guy alone is responsible for every day of marriage that is less than marvelous and meaningful.

    Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA
  • We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.

    Morning   Lying   Names  
  • If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape and learn quickly not to jump so high. They give up their quest for freedom. After the lid is removed, the fleas remain imprisond by their own self policing. So it is with life. Most of us let our own fears or the impositions of others imprison us in a world of low expectations.

  • I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.

    Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.153, Macmillan
  • Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

  • No one rises to low expectations

  • I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

  • It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

  • Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

    "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.
  • If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

  • Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

  • The one thing I’ve always had going for me was people’s low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me.

    "Most Happy Fella – On New Album Chris Isaak Takes A Walk In The Sun". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. February 15, 2002.
  • One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations.

  • The soft bigotry of low expectations

  • I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

    Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2013.
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