Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind. When there is no mind, there is no sinner and no saint, and the gift simply showers on you.

Rajneesh

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

Rob Zombie

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

Richard Baxter

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.

Veronica Roth

I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

Rene Descartes

Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.

Russell Simmons

I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations.

Rumi

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Rosemary Clooney

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Sam Walton

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

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

Sam Abell

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

Roberto Bolano

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.

Steve Almond

Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.

Sophie Swetchine

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

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.

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.

Terence McKenna

By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

Teju Cole

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner...

Stanley Milgram

Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.

Stephen Colbert

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

Sonia Sotomayor

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Thomas Kuhn

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

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.

Roz Savage

A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

Richard DeVos

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Maggie Stiefvater

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

Macklemore

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen

Oswald Spengler

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.