Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Tony Robbins

Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.

Sri Chinmoy

Peace begins When expectation ends.

Ron Kaufman

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Thomas Malthus

Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.

Steven Erikson

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

Richard Carlson

What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.

Tom Hanks

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Ville Valo

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

Vin Diesel

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

Sigmund Freud

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

Shirley Hazzard

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.

Shana Alexander

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Shane Claiborne

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Seamus Heaney

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seth Godin

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

Rajneesh

If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy the very mind that creates those expectations. If you come to me, never come with expectations, otherwise you will be disappointed - because I have no obligation to fulfill your expectations in any way. In fact, if I see that there are some expectations, I do things DELIBERATELY to destroy those expectations. That is the price you have to pay to be with me.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Michael Cerveris

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 Crichton

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

Obviously, the expectation levels are always high, and they are again. So, we'll just get ready to take the journey.

William Butler Yeats

No expectation fails there,No pleasing habit ends,No man grows old, no girl grows cold,But friends walk by friends.

William Butler Yeats

No expectation fails there, No pleasing habit ends, No man grows old, no girl grows cold, But friends walk by friends.

Elizabeth Blackburn

No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.

My expectation will be -- has been every year -- it will always be to get into the NCAA tournament, whatever that means. I will be disappointed if that does not happen this year.

My expectation is that she'll be in Vernon for years.

My expectation is that Pavel will be back to play for us.

My expectation is she will be in the hospital for many years.

Joe Girardi

My expectation for him is to be a leader. From everything I know, and from talking to him, he already is a leader. So I just want him to be himself. Don't try to do too much, because I'm not going to let him.

I don't think it's fair to negotiate in the press. We've got a great relationship with Cox. We're in several markets throughout the country, and our expectation is to be on (in the Las Vegas) market come fall.

Chris Witty

There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.