Quotes about expect
expectations waiting hated
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. Marilynne Robinson
expectations grace important
When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace. Patricia Briggs
expectations justice done
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. Paddy Ashdown
expectations littles matter
Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously. Philip Zimbardo
expectations
My expectations are incredibly high, Paula Creamer
expectations genius doe
True genius does not fulfill expectations. True genius shatters it. Paula Abdul
expectations musician brown
One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself. Lisa Loeb
expectations giving path-of-love
Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace. John Robbins
expectations unjust would-be
A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved. John Rawls
expectations want wake-up
If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves. Mark Spitz
expectations actors shy
I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect. Nicole Kidman
expectations effort decision
Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback. Peter Drucker
expectations clerks needs
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
expectations risk comforting
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing. Sherry Turkle
expectations stronger pressure
Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger. Nick Goepper
expectations want settling
I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it? Nora Ephron
expectations pay probability
Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
expectations age world
Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close. Marianne Williamson
expectations desire action
Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow. Mason Cooley
expectations uncanny feels
When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.
expectations horizon different
I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created. Michael Gove
expectations people able
I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations. Michael Cerveris
expectations age way
You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings. Mia Wasikowska
expectations trouble theory
One of the most difficult features of direct experince is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories. Michael Crichton
expectations grammar permit
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
expectations mysterious-ways way
Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.
expectations overcoming want
If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity. Mesut Ozil
expectations temptation able
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me. Michel de Montaigne
expectations enemy please
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
expecting focus ready soak
Let him be. He's focused. We're all expecting big things out of him, and he's expecting big things out of his teammates. Let him focus and soak it in and be ready for Sunday. Rudi Johnson
expects lower
Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.
expect happen high past standard team time wants winning
Losing, it doesn't happen here. It's not accepted. That's just the way it is. Winning is the standard that's been set by the past teams, and each new team wants to live up to those standards. So expectations here are as high as ever. Every time we take the field, we expect to win. Greg Olsen
expect happen league major stay talked time year
Lou really had a year that he had to stay away from major league baseball. I didn't know that at the time we talked about it. It's just not going to happen this year. And I would expect Lou to go back to managing.