Expectation Quotes
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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.
Emily Dickinson
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No expectations, no disappointments!
Eric Jerome Dickey
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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
Cate Blanchett
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With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.
Rory McIlroy
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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.
Bill Crawford
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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.
Carl Hart
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
Paul Rand
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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.
Barack Obama
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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 .
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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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.
Jasper Fforde
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Act without expectation.
Lao Tzu
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I don't want to raise expectations too high.
Jack Straw
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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.
Tiger Woods
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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.
Peter T. King
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Have an attitude of positive expectation.
Germany Kent
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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.
Cate Blanchett
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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.
Catherine Deneuve
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My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
Soren Kierkegaard