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• It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

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• So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

  Bill Watterson

  Self Esteem, Secret, Mets

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Order, People, Challenges

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• 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

  John Suckling

  Blessing, Anticipation, Dear

  1646 'Against Fruition'.

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• I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

  John Starks

  New York, Thinking, Media

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• We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Peace, Democracy, Failing

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• We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Humor, Personality, Style

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

  Rosemary Clooney

  People, Rosemary, Felt

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• If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Knowing, Literature

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• So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

  Johnny Bench

  Yeah, I Can

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• The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

  Neil Strauss

  Men, Inspire, Males

  "All the right moves". Interview with Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.590

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• I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

  James D'arcy

  Actors, Driving, Rich

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

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• Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

  John Suckling

  Hope, Blessing, Heaven

  Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.22

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• Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

  Joyce Maynard

  Believe, Long, Salinger

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• My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

  Amy Tan

  Parent, Kindergarten, Expected

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

  Martin Short

  Fun, Hate, Thinking

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• I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Life, Motivational, Positivity

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• I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

  Famke Janssen

  Disappointment, People, Trying

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Respect, Lying, Self

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.108, Zola Books

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• Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.

  Seth Godin

  Nature, Reality, Experience

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• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  Paul Rand

  Inspirational, Ideas, Goal

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• The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

  Michael J. Fox

  Acceptance, Unhappy, Finding Peace

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• When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Hope, Circles

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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