Expectations Quotes - Page 12

• I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Wisdom of a forefather" by Colorado State University, February 11, 2009.

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• One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

  Lisa Loeb

  Musician, Come Up, Brown University

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• Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn't be an issue.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Mean, Issues

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• Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Age, Corporations

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• When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

  Chris Martin

  Albums, Fifth, Previous Work

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• Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease.

  Surya Das

  Letting Go, Regret, Home

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• I think oldest children have a different mentality or know that there were different expectations of them, and I was not only the oldest child - I was the oldest grandchild of 18 grandchildren. I definitely grew up feeling like there were a lot of people who expected me to do something. But it was a very conservative family, very conservative neighborhood. I'm talking mid- to late '60s when I was growing up there, and so if I had stayed in the Boston area, I think my life would have been radically different.

  Susan Lyne

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Success, Believe

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• 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

  Important, Foundation, Details

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.69, Bottom of the Hill

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• And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

  C. S. Lewis

  Memories, Years, One Day

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• No one rises to low expectations

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teaching

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• Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Book, Years

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

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• There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Attitude, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Daughter, Father, Want

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Engagement, Assumption

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• You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.

  Esther Hicks

  Paving, Your Future

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.136, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

  Robert Fulghum

  Love You, Heart, Love Is

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.68, Ballantine Books

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• Globalization has enriched the planet beyond belief, leading to ever-increased demands of perfection. And thanks to 24/7 communications, we all instantaneously know when these expectations aren't met.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Communication, Perfection, Demand

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• Put your expectations on God, not on people.

  Joyce Meyer

  People

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• Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

  Stephen King

  Art, Realization, Veils

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

  Jane Roberts

  Reality, Imagination, Range

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• When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

  Patricia Briggs

  Grace, Important, Live By

  Patricia Briggs (1998). “When Demons Walk”, p.236, Penguin

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• And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

  Amy Tan

  Fate, Thinking, Rose

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.131, Penguin

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• So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hermione, Exam, Should

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• 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?

  Jodi Picoult

  What If, World, Faces

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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