Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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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.
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I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
Gail Devers -
Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.
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Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
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We had an agreement with Borussia that I could leave. It didn't happen. It is a disappointment. But I'm also happy to stay.
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First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
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Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
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I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.
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I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.
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We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.
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I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
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There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.
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I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
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To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
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I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
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But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.
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Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.
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I don't know where it's going, but I'm sticking with it!
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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
