Expectations Quotes - Page 6

• We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

  Ivan Illich

  Hope, Difficult Times, Distinction

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• It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

  Roberta Williams

  Work, Exceed, Seems

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• You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

  Denis Johnson

  Pressure, Facts, Journalism

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• Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

  Bob Beauprez

  Teacher, Commitment, Parent

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• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Disappointment, Heartache, Giving

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• The fewer expectations you have, the better.

  Laurie Anderson

  Fewer

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• Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Cat, Play, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.222

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• I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

  Al Gore

  Plans, Candidates

  "Gore: “I Have Absolutely No Plans” To Run For Pres. Again... But “I Don’t Completely Rule Out Some Future Interest”..." by Mattias Karen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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• We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

  Lauryn Hill

  Reality, People, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

  David Duchovny

  Trust, Keys, People

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• Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

  Alice Walker

  Life, Gratitude, Attitude

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.142, Rutgers University Press

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• Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

  Judi Dench

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Meaningful

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• The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

  Norton Juster

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "An Interview with Norton Juster, Author of The Phantom Tollbooth". Interview with RoseEtta Stone, www.underdown.org.

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• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

  William Congreve

  Joy, Risk, Anticipation

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229

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• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Children, Men, America

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (Complete)”, p.174, Library of Alexandria

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• The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

  Samuel Alexander

  Desire, Degrees, May

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• When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Dream, Strong Women

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

  Douglas Adams

  Disappointment, Sorrow, Fruit

  Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Running, Reality, Ideas

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.390

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• Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Attitude, Views

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by the impressions and expectations of others.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Light, Priorities, Missions

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.91, Conari Press

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• Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 10, 2012

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

  Samuel Alexander

  Objects, Belonging

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