Expectations Quotes
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Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.
Brian Christian
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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
James Brown
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We believe the lower top-line growth in Q4' 00 versus expectations and uncertainty over Amazon's top-line growth going forward will overshadow the operational achievements that we felt were necessary to achieve operating profitability by Q4 ' 01 and subsequently could have driven stock price appreciation.
Anthony Noto
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I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.
William Mapother
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Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
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This is a stepping stone for the big picture. It's going to ease (expectations) and I'm going to learn from today. I learned from Jim, watching him play. It's a step in the right direction.
Aaron Baddeley
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I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.
J. J. Hardy
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Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
Tom Stoppard
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In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.
John Tillotson
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Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
Marianne Williamson
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Put your expectations on God, not on people.
Joyce Meyer
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I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?
Rachel Cohn