Quotes about expectations
expectations shapes outlook
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. Richard DeVos
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 results term
Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis. Warren Buffett
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 persons
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person. William Makepeace Thackeray
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 luck calculations
I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me. Napoleon Bonaparte
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
expectations might honest
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
expectations what-if world
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?
expectations fundamentals today
There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself' Kim Williams
expectations essentials may
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on. P. D. James
expectations proud kind
Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one. Jurgen Klinsmann
expectations joy becoming
She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself Miriam Toews
expectations anticipation please
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. Marcus Tullius Cicero
expectations criticism consideration
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought. Margaret Chase Smith
expectations desire goes-on
It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on. Paulo Coelho
expectations people burden
We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape. R. A. Salvatore
expectations onions coats
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl. Nathaniel Hawthorne
expectations marketing want
The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see. Terry Gilliam
expectations people fundamentals
By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other. Terence McKenna
expectations absence
Patience is the absence of expectation. Shinichi Suzuki
expectations want quiet
Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them. Josh Radnor
expectations one-thing
Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another. Kate Morton
expectations risk
I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk. Leonard Cohen
expectations velvet remember
If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet. Lisa Gardner
expectations people criminals
People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime? Linda Tripp
expectations privacy crime
Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?