Expectations Quotes
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Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.
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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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Believe in yourself, believe in something higher than yourself, be selfless, exercise, have great expectations and execute day by day.
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She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself
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You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it's not something I pay attention to.
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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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Surprise comes from defying expectations.
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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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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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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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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I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
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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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Patience is the absence of expectation.
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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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When travelling, dress as comfortably as possible and don't have expectations of everything going perfectly.
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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.
