Societal Expectations Quotes

• Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.

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  Ali al-Naimi

  Business   Real   Expectations  

  "Saudi Arabia’s Surprising About-Face on Climate Change" by Kelly Rigg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Educating Lawyers succeeds admirably in describing the educational programs at virtually every American law school. The call for the integration of the three apprenticeships seems to me exactly what is needed to make legal education more professional, to prepare law students better for the practice of law, and to address societal expectations of lawyers.

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  Stephen Wizner

  Educational   School   Law  

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• Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.

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  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Believe   Heartache   Expectations  

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.147, Conari Press

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• You may have what it takes to be successful, but if you lose yourself in someone else's priorities or societal expectations, you will be judged not by your potential but rather by your history

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  Lois P Frankel

  Successful   Expectations   Priorities  

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• I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

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  Ayelet Waldman

  Motherhood   Issues   Expectations  

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.

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  Alice Kahn

  Hair   Two   Expectations  

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• Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.

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  Philip Zimbardo

  Expectations   Littles   Matter  

  Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.

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  Jeaniene Frost

  Lying   Hero   Men  

  "Why women find vampires hot" by Jeaniene Frost, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2010.

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