Expectations Quotes
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What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
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I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.
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Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
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Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.
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The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.
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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.
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The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.
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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?
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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
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True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
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You can tell when he's out there the crowd buzz and everything, expectations.
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I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
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When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.
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We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
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I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.
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We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.
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When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.
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I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.
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Put your expectations on God, not on people.
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We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
