Expectations Quotes - Page 33

• A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

  Merlin Mann

  Space, Different, Done

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• I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

  Bruce Lee

  Done, Sincerity, Ability

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing

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• Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.

  Laozi

  Mother, Father, Heart

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• A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

  Carl Jung

  Personality, Energy, Events

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• You are still guided by your expectations.

  Zhuangzi

  Tao, Stills

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• It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Letting Go, Crazy, Eye

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• I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dream, Wedding, White

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• If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

  Bryan Cranston

  Stars, Mean, Levels

  "Bryan Cranston: 'I had to take my character from Mr Chips to Scarface" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

  Dave Eggers

  Magazines, Might, Able

  "Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 05, 2010.

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• You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

  Janelle Monae

  Beautiful, Beautiful Things

  "Janelle Monae Talks New CoverGirl Gig, Signature Style And Being Fearlessly Beautiful". Interview With Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

  James McGreevey

  Children, Kids, Shoes

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• I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Trying, Film

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Road to Riches". Interview with Mishal Husain, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2003.

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• My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.

  Steve Case

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

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• I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

  Garry Trudeau

  Editors, Trying, Paper

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• When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Might

  Interview with Erica Rivera, www.ericarivera.net. December 10, 2011.

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• Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.

  Jim Clyburn

  Iraq, Effort, Priorities

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• We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Sides, Exit, Clients

  "Interview: Dell's Rollins lays out a road map, from services to AMD". Interview with Tom Sullivan, www.infoworld.com. November 12, 2004.

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• I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

  Anthony Minghella

  Notebook, Writing, Lasts

  Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

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• We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.

  Marek Belka

  Growing, Reason, Economy

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• The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

  David Gilmour

  Artist, Different, Solo

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• I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

  Bryan Singer

  Summer, Thinking, People

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• The Oval Office symbolizes…the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I’m going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it’s appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

  Andrew Card

  Dream, Thinking, Office

  "Former Chief of Staff to Obama: Put Your Jacket On" by Bernie Becker, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. February 4, 2009.

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• People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  People, Accountability, Competition

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• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  Faye Wattleton

  Mother, Religious, Order

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