Expectations Quotes - Page 31

• Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, Oil, Growth

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• I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

  Howard Schultz

  People, Stills, Right Thing

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.28, Rodale

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• I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.

  Terrance Hayes

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

  Paula Scher

  Design, Use, Raises

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• The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

  Paula Scher

  Goal, Design, Raises

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• We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Time, Powerful, Disappointment

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Optimistic, Firsts, Function

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• Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a choice in). This short, powerful statement assured me that I have the freedom, in spite of and because of my birth, body, race, gender expectations, and economic resources, to define myself for myself and for others.

  Janet Mock

  Powerful, Race, Choices

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• Luxury, by definition, means something that appears to be the best of whatever it represents. It's a word that raises people's expectations, whether talking about clothing for women or locations for people to live You pay for recognition, but probably the most important thing it represents is delivery on the promise of the brand's name.

  Isadore Sharp

  Mean, Talking, Names

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• The hope that God has provided for you is not merely a wish. Neither is it dependent on other people, possessions, or circumstances for its validity. Instead, biblical hope is an application of your faith that supplies a confident expectation in God's fulfillment of His promises. Coupled with faith and love, hope is part of the abiding characteristics in a believer's life.

  John C. Broger

  Biblical, People, Promise

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• Every time you connect, a little bit more clarity stays around the love, a little bit more space opens up around it. your mind becomes clearer. you experience expanded possibilities. You become a little more confident, a little more willing to connect with others, a little more willing to open up to other people, whether that means talking about your own stuff or listen to theirs. And as that happens a little miracle occurs: You're giving, without expectation in return. Your very being becomes, consciously or not, an inspiration to others

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Inspiration, Mean, Talking

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• Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

  Greg Louganis

  Mom, Dad, Unconditional Love

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• My expectations are incredibly high.

  Paula Creamer

  "Now meet her young rivals ..." by Natalie Gulbis, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

  Bruce Oldfield

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• Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Low Expectations, Disability, Lows

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• To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.

  Allison Glock

  Girl, Mom, School

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• There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Fundamentals, Haunting

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• Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Lying, Unhappy, Gaps

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Couple, Acceptance, Serenity

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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

  Robert Orben

  Pandas, Disappointing, Mating

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• After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I’m supposed to go to the NFL and so that’s what I did. I didn’t really have any expectations and I didn’t really understand how things worked.

  Ricky Williams

  Nfl, Trophies

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• If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.

  Jaime Escalante

  Teacher, Fall, Kids

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• I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Lying, Imagination, Incredibles

  "The Heidi chronicles and other plays". Book by Wendy Wasserstein, November 18, 1988.

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• I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Father, Thinking, Iowa

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  Hugh Howey

  Book, Knowing, Hands

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