Expectation Quotes

• 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.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

  

  Kevin Rollins
  • Single
  • Expectation

• To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.

  

  Jon Evans
  • Time
  • Money
  • Community

• Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Expectation
  • Unspoken
  • Resentments

• Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Painting
  • Mountain

• Memory for playing a musical piece... involves a process very much like that for music listening... through establishing standard schemas and expectation. In addition, musicians use chunking... tying information together into groups, and remembering the group as a whole rather than individual pieces.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • Together
  • Listening

• Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • True
  • Giving
  • Hand

• Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Clothes
  • Expectation
  • Garment

• I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

  

  John Crowley
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Game

• The key is to constantly keep the audience surprised. If they feel like something is going to happen, or they think from an educational standpoint that something is about to happen because of all the moving parts, it is your job to break that expectation and show the audience something different.

  

  James Wan
  • Different
  • Job
  • Moving

• One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Freedom
  • Brave
  • Explore

• The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

  

  Gene Stallings
  • Excellence
  • Expectation
  • Level

• No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Family
  • Expectation

• I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • World
  • Alone
  • Expectation

• The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Done
  • Giving
  • Concern For Others

• My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Hope
  • Reality
  • Moving

• I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • High
  • Expectation

• It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

  

  George Boole
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect
  • Expectation

• As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

  

  Kiki Smith
  • Fun
  • Expectation

• You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Expectation

• I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Luck
  • Expectation
  • Calculation

• I've done far too many things that I felt were going to be genius that weren't and I've done some things that I didn't think were going to be much that really connected with people. So expectations are left at the door. But hope exists all the time.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Expectation

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