Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tony Robbins

Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

Tony Robbins

Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.

Simone Elkeles

I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

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.

Rumi

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

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.

Russell Simmons

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

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.

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.

Sophie Swetchine

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

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.

Taissa Farmiga

To be honest, I didn't have any expectations. I really didn't know what to expect. What I was most nervous about was the repetition of doing it over and over and over again. Does that get stale? How do you keep it fresh? Then I realized it's always new because you get to keep playing the next moment.

Tablo

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

Sylvia Plath

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

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.

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.

Steven Weber

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

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.