John Maynard Keynes Quotes

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

John Maynard Keynes

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• I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • High
  • Want
  • Myself

• But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • High
  • Yourself
  • Expectations

• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Law
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• Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • Customer

• When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Me
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• I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Girl
  • Expectations

• Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Quality
  • Expectations

• We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Expectations

• As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Development
  • Expectations
  • Rights

• I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Magic
  • Expectations

• I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Expectations

• I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like.

  

  Pat Bowlen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Year

• We tend to live up to our expectations.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Up
  • Live
  • Expectations

• The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Mind
  • You
  • Expectations

• I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Day
  • Expectations
  • Birthday

• Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Up
  • Expectations

• I have no expectations. None at all.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Expectations

• There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Truth
  • Human being
  • Foolish

• 'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Song
  • Years
  • Popular

• I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Up
  • Money
  • End

• You don't need the technical understanding to make the moral judgments.

  

  Barbara Katz Rothman
  • Understanding
  • Judgments
  • Don't Need

• I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

  

  Michael Grimm
  • Children
  • Want
  • Successful

• It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Expectations
  • Foolish
  • Forming