Expectations Quotes
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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Our wants and needs distort to an unknown degree what we perceive. We block out a great deal of information that is potentially available if it does not fit our needs, expectations, preconceptions, and prejudgments.
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Our relationship had been intended as an interlude. And it had become an interlude. My expectations had been fulfilled. Anyone who expected anything more would have been wallowing in illusions.
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You can plan all you want, but at the end of the day, you have what you have. Don’t set your expectations too high.
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I do think once I get into expectations, I've just trained myself. I've just trained myself to just move on to the next.
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Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.
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Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative. The Bible must be read as a whole, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation, letting promise and fulfillment guide or expectations for what we will find there.
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It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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Really, our expectations will not change. I say it every year. We respect Texas. We've been on both sides of it. We've been picked behind them before, and we've been picked ahead of them before. We'll get off the bus when it's time to play.
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Surprise comes from defying expectations.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
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I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
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I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
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By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
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She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself
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There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.
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Patience is the absence of expectation.
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I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
