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• If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Inspiration, Athlete

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• Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

  Mary Douglas

  Disappointment, Hands, Promise

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• In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Power, United States, Economy

  "The United States". New York magazine, November 15, 1971.

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• I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

  Michael Landon

  Disappointment, Giants

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• The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

  Jack Levine

  Disappointment, Race, Opposites

  Kenneth Wade Prescott, Jack Levine (1978). “Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, Graphics”

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• We tend to get what we expect.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Clever, Positive Thinking, Addiction

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• You have to learn to follow your heart. You can’t let other people pressure you into being something that you’re not. If you want God’s favor in your life, you must be the person He made you to be, not the person your boss wants you to be, not even the person your parents or your husband wants you to be. You can’t let outside expectations keep you from following your own heart.

  Joel Osteen

  Husband, Heart, People

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• Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

  Michael Landon

  Dream, Self, Mind

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• Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

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• Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

  Edward de Bono

  Happiness, Positive Attitude, Differences

  In Observer 12 June 1977

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• We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Heartache

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 04, 2012

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• I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

  Charles Dickens

  Romantic Love, Promise, Unqualified

  1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.29.

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• A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Business, Order, Accomplishment

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• We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

  Sherry Turkle

  Friendship, Technology, Creating

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• This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself

  Bernadette Roberts

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

  Martin Heidegger

  Destiny, Should, Frontiers

  "NCIS: Endgame". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Sad, Break Up, Breakup

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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• Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Relationship, Playing Games, Political

  "Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1984.

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• I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Believe, Player, Creating

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

  Robert South

  Men, Half, Pleasure

  "Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions".

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• I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

  Annie Lennox

  Dream, Mean, Loss

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• I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Biographies, Source, Offers

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• Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

  Lee Patrick Mastelotto

  Responsibility, Baggage

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• People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

  Linda Tripp

  People, Criminals, Privacy

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