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• Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was particularly interested. For Roosevelt knew, all the leaders royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life Changing, Reading, Heart

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.

  Gary Payton

  Play, Hunters, Easier

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• We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

  Andrzej Wajda

  People, Waiting, Culture

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• I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

  Jane Siberry

  Creativity, Cutting, Thinking

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• Who are your heroes? Why do you look up to them? Why do we respect those who live and think for themselves as opposed to doing what is expected? We all admire the idea of living a life unbound by thoughts of fear. People who seem to live that dream inspire us to want to do the same. They mirror the qualities that we possess but are too scared to access.

  Kat Von D

  Dream, Hero, Thinking

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• Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Evil, Vices, May

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

  Nuruddin Farah

  Track, Different, Opinion

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• Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Thinking, Intellectual, Intuition

  "Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type".

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• Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.

  Hal Riney

  Opposites

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• Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Differences, Common

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.16, Regnery Publishing

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• Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

  Merlin Mann

  Cost, More Time, More Money

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• Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Believer

  Joni Eareckson Tada (1994). “Joni Eareckson Tada: Her Story”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart.

  Sarah

  Integrity, Heart, Conviction

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• Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

  Scott Berkun

  Experiments

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• Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

  James Richardson

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.

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• I had expected to be playing in the reserves and, all going well, that I might get a chance in the first team towards the end of the season. But it has all happened much faster than I could ever have thought.

  Robbie Keane

  Team, Might, Firsts

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• In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.

  Cory Booker

  Love Is, Small Acts, Battle

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• So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.

  Cynthia Hand

  Thinking, Capable

  Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.49, Egmont UK

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• Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

  George Vecsey

  Art, Robins, Gorgeous

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• While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.

  Sara Sheridan

  Frustrated, Excluded, Amount

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• But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

  Jessi Kirby

  Lasts, Chance, Wanted

  Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Names, Long, Shining

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• I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.

  Philip Sington

  Character, Darkness, Fiction

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• Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

  Walter Kirn

  Choices, Important, Together

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• What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Matter

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