Expectations Quotes - Page 37

• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  Mae Jemison

  Kids, People, Giving

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• God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, Desire, Guides

  Matthew Henry (1866). “Directions for daily communion with God, in 3 discourses, and The communicant's companion”, p.10

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• Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.

  Matthew Henry

  Humble, House, Way

  Matthew Henry (1997). “Experiencing God’s Presence”, p.32, Whitaker House

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• Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  God, Friday, Spiritual

  Hans Von Balthasar, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyr (2010). “To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption”, p.39, Ignatius Press

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• It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Feminist, Body

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• Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.

  Judy Chu

  Boys, Thinking, Self

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• All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an unanticipated phenomenon occurs again and again—finally turning into an expectation—then theories are overturned.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Issues, Interesting, Example

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.136, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

  Peter Senge

  Mistake, Frustrated, Scratches

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• Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Reflection, Frustration, Mirrors

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.206, Mango Media Inc.

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• Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.

  Ken Blanchard

  Fans, Want, Good Enough

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• When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Love You, Self

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.102, Penguin

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• On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Morning, Perfection

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• I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

  Dustin Penner

  Fun, Hard Work, Humor

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• The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group.

  Tony Robbins

  Reflection, Inner Strength, Quality

  "Who Are You Hanging Out With?" by Mercenary Trader, www.businessinsider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.

  Grover Cleveland

  Character, Government, People

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its giving. This is universal law and each individual must manifest this law. Man will forever war with man until he learns to give his all with the full expectation of equal receiving, and never taking that which is not given as an earned reward for his giving.

  Walter Russell

  War, Men, Law

  Walter Russell (1947). “The Secret of Light”, p.110, Рипол Классик

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• When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

  John O'Hurley

  Inspiring, Commitment, Bigs

  John O'Hurley (2006). “It's Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump: And Other Life Lessons I Learned from Dogs”, p.33, Penguin

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• Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

  Sivananda

  Hands, Giving, Doe

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• Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Ipods, Car, Promise

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• Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Bullying, Work, Women

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• High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

  Paul Hersey

  People, Facts, Belief

  Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Dewey E. Johnson (2008). “Management of Organizational Behavior: Leading Human Resources”, Prentice Hall

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• You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

  Brian Tracy

  Expectations Of Yourself, Higher

  Twitter post from May 07, 2016

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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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• Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.

  Caroline Myss

  Giving Up, Needs, Tomorrow

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• When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

  Bill Bradley

  Speech

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