Expectation Quotes

• What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • People
  • Great
  • Success

• Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

  

  Dean Inge
  • True
  • Faith
  • Expectation

• All too often, new hires have a different expectation of their job and responsibilities than the organization does. Any miscommunication during the recruiting process needs to be cleared up ASAP. Whenever possible, give new employees a written plan of objectives and responsibilities.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Up
  • Different
  • Job

• If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Important
  • Expectation

• When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don't feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong with you. I think it's dissatisfaction that the expectation was different than the reality.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Different
  • Why
  • Kids

• The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

  

  David Knopfler Dire Straits
  • School
  • Logic
  • Expectation

• One thing that probably is unique at Activision is that we really spend a lot of time up front with our audiences, and in big quantities and with a very thoughtful process, to really try and draw out from them what it is that they would like to play. So we have a pretty good sense going in what the expectation of the audience is.

  

  Bobby Kotick
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

  

  Marya Mannes
  • Reality
  • Romantic
  • Greed

• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That work requirement led to record increases in employment and earnings and a record decrease in poverty and welfare dependence after it was enacted.

  

  Charles Boustany
  • Time
  • Work
  • Law

• Opportunity meets you at your level of expectation.

  

  Bill Bartmann
  • Opportunity
  • Expectation
  • Meets

• 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

• A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good.

  

  Sophocles
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Expectation

• The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

  

  Andrew Card
  • House
  • Democracy
  • Expectation

• In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Power
  • Expectation

• Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Opportunity
  • Risk
  • Choices

• I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Trying
  • High
  • Expectation

• There are still a lot of people who have the expectation that they're entitled to everything and want to pay for nothing.

  

  Martin Naughton
  • People
  • Expectation

• Every interaction with another person involves a dance of expectation, even when you're just passing someone in the street. Inside those moments - however brief they may be - there is a kind of anticipatory silence.

  

  David Means
  • May
  • Moments
  • Dance

• I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Expectation
  • Influenced
  • Promotion

• More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• A good rotation. A rotation I define as the experiencing of the new beyond the expectation of the experiencing of the new.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Expectation

• People can get a bit like, "Oh my God, your life is different than mine." But no, it's not. Everyone's got the same problems. We all get jobs, and we lose them. We have a good time, and we don't have a good time. It's changed in that some people have a certain expectation of what they might find when they meet me, which sucks, because I'm not that thing.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Failure

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