Quotes about expectation
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 each-day something-new
Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.
expectations letters envelopes
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. Shana Alexander
expectations people world
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. Shane Claiborne
expectations political groups
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. Seamus Heaney
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.
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 great-expectations poor
Great expectations are better than a poor possession. Miguel de Cervantes
expectations would-be overcoming
When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist. Neil deGrasse Tyson
expectations five-senses modern
Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.
expectations people needs
How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected. Margaret Drabble
expectations challenges satisfaction
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. Kingman Brewster, Jr.
expectations
Buy what's deliverable, not what could be. Michael Bloomberg
expectations way world
That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect. Lev Grossman
expectations language cures
With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting. Lauren Oliver
expectations surprise defying
Surprise comes from defying expectations. Seth Godin
expectations excellence quality
Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
expectations work-ethic levels
Work ethic must exceed the expectation level. Tom Coughlin
expectations forever world
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
expectations evil evil-things
Expectations are an evil thing. Skylar Grey
expectations mind way
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. Rajneesh
expectations littles pressure
There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding. Joe Swanberg
expectations way beats
Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all. Jodi Picoult