Quotes about expectations
expectations heaven soul
I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth. Richard Baxter
expectations shapes outlook
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. Richard DeVos
expectations feelings nervous
I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here. Vinny Testaverde
expectations gold scarcity
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. Samuel Johnson
expectations dollars portfolios
There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation. Warren Buffett
expectations results term
Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.
expectations joy risk
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. William Congreve
expectations joy
False expectations take away joy. Sandra Bullock
expectations people rosemary
I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. Rosemary Clooney
expectations together share
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations. Sam Walton
expectations giving want
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
expectations lessons given
The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation. Sam Abell
expectations scary buckets
We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be. Wendell Berry
expectations important details
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
expectations judging
Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations. Wolfgang Puck
expectations judgement guilt
Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value. William P. Young
expectations persons
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person. William Makepeace Thackeray
expectations careful ifs
If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations. Neale Donald Walsch
expectations high-expectations bother
High expectations don't bother me at all. Miguel Cabrera
expectations people steps
People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low. Kevin Smith
expectations able rise-above
I have always been able to rise above the expectations. Kay Bailey Hutchison
expectations mankind greater
Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me. Jonathan Nolan
expectations pressure kind
I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation. Mandy Moore
expectations people levels
If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations. John C. Maxwell
expectations energy celestine-prophecy
The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations. James Redfield
expectations world stuff
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.
expectations progress may
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. Friedrich August von Hayek
expectations bats
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat, Franklin D. Roosevelt
expectations yeah i-can
So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to. Johnny Bench
expectations labels world
You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in. Lupe Fiasco
expectations grace life-is
There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected. Emmylou Harris
expectations luck calculations
I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me. Napoleon Bonaparte
expectations facts sometimes
We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations. Orrin Hatch