Expectation Quotes
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
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When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.
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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
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I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.
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No expectations, no disappointments!
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With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.
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I don't want to raise expectations too high.
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She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.
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The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social sciences into their rational expectation straitjackets, not recognizing that, whatever the state of the social sciences in our own institution, strong tendencies toward acknowledging the silent but central role of the humanities in the area studies paradigm are now around.
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Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction.
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To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
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Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.
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Act without expectation.
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One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
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Have an attitude of positive expectation.
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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
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When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.
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My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
