Expecting Quotes

• Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.

  

  Jan Mark
  • Present
  • Inspiration
  • Run

• The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Different
  • Problem
  • Expecting

• A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

  

  Wes Montgomery
  • Cutting
  • Rock And Roll
  • Carrie

• Give, expecting nothing there of.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Give
  • Expecting

• Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Generosity
  • Return
  • Expecting

• If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

  

  James Cook
  • Result
  • Insanity
  • Liberalism

• That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.

  

  Cindy Chupack
  • Stop
  • Key
  • Expecting

• We're expecting Jim to be a leader on the track and off the track.

  

  Eric Murray
  • Leader
  • Track
  • Expecting

• Fame is temporary, make it longterm by putting smiles on people's hearts and helping others by expecting nothing in return. Be famous and unforgettable for your Unconditional Love.

  

  Arsi Nami
  • People
  • Fame
  • Expecting

• The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

  

  George R. Stewart
  • Way
  • Trouble
  • Sneak

• I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

  

  Misha Collins
  • Giving
  • Something
  • Return

• I've really been happy with the progress of all three. It's really a talented group that I'm expecting big things from.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Happy
  • Expecting
  • Talanted

• The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You wouldn't go to the theater expecting to see an old-fashioned "Hamlet" where everybody wears an old fashioned costume. You don't get points for putting on a "Hamlet" where everybody dresses in black. I've seen that one several times. But again, it's not that it has to be new, it simply that it has to be different, fresh, that it doesn't bore, that it doesn't make me - I don't feel as I'm watching it that I know where it's going to go.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Different
  • Black
  • Problem

• When your dealing with a lot of men talking about selling drugs, you have to be the toughest one there, you have to be the one putting in all the work that you are expecting them to do. I was tired of leading from the front and living that life. That was not the aggressive lifestyle that I wanted to live. I wanted to progress as a man.

  

  Damon Dash
  • Progress
  • Tired
  • Talking

• Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.

  

  David
  • Something
  • Opportunities
  • Someone

• When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

  

  Shunryu Suzuki
  • Time
  • Moment
  • Expecting

• Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Insanity

• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Different
  • Mean
  • Common

• Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens.

  

  Andrew Ripp
  • Mind
  • Night
  • Feelings

• I wasn't expecting to really draw in respected comedians but it's going to happen along the way and I'm truly honored by that.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Comedian
  • Draws
  • Honored

• The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Drawing
  • Certain

• I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

  

  Joseph Kosinski
  • Movies
  • Discovering
  • Expecting

• Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Expecting
  • Seeking

• When looking at female body builders and reading about the industry and the culture, their bodies just break down. They end up having to get breast implants and not having menstrual cycles. The obsession of pushing your physical self way beyond what nature is expecting is really interesting. I liked the idea of these women; it's their career, but it's also their obsession.

  

  Wardell Milan
  • Culture
  • Interesting
  • Female

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