Expectations Quotes - Page 4

• no expectations, no disappointments!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Disappointment, Upset, African American

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Chasing Destiny”, p.123, Penguin

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• The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Hope, Counting

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2091, Delphi Classics

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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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• We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Prepared

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• It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

  Ralph Ellison

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Long

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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• The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

  Martha Beck

  Asia, Results, Position

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• And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

  Kathy Acker

  Trying, Language, Kind

  "Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?". Interview with R.U. Sirius, io Magazine, Issue 2, www.altx.com. December 9, 1997.

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• Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Wise, Information Knowledge

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Giving

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• I don't have any expectations.

  Delta Goodrem

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• It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

  Danny Boyle

  Good Place

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• Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Hard Work, Athlete

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• If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model has clearly been a major failure. It has served a minority, and the majority have not only failed to share in the income gains yielded by the model, they have suffered from reduced benefits, greater job instability and stress, and a diminution of expectations and sense of hope for the future.

  Edward S. Herman

  Jobs, Stress, Majority

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• I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

  Lorin Maazel

  New York, Passion, Thinking

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• When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

  Anne Lamott

  Sometimes, Floats

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• The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.

  Peter Gabriel

  Meaningful, Hands, Rights

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• The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

  David Knopfler

  School, Punishment, Creative

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• The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

  Roy H. Williams

  Funny, Loyalty, Educational

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• Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Courage, Warrior

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• Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Life, Cracks, Pottery

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Brandon Sanderson Sampler: The Way of Kings and Mistborn”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Motivational, Positive

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• We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Believe, Winning

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• Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Work, Doors, Honestly

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• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Power, Hazards

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• Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Hurt, Past

  "Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy". Book by Sarah Ban Breathnach, 1995.

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