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• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  Patrick Carney

  Fun, Play, People

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Jobs, Years, Acting

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• You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.

  Beth Moore

  Expecting Something, Different, Way

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• If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Powerful, Compassion

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.167, Harper Collins

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• When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised at how much pleasure you get in material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

  Donald Miller

  People, Perfect, Trouble

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.206, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

  Dorothy Day

  Gratitude, Giving, Feel Good

  "Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation". Book by Parker Palmer, pp. 48-49, 1999.

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• It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.

  Charlie Munger

  Miracle, Dumb, Trying

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• Not expecting someone to measure up is an insult

  Marshall Sylver

  Insult

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• Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Effort, Mind, Grasping

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• Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Perfect, Perfection, Release

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• Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Artist, Errors, Keys

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• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

  Gary Numan

  Wall, Disappointment, Dark

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• Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Pain, Failure, Adversity

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• When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Government, Smoking, Needs

  Twitter post from Nov 8, 2017

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• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, People, Important

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• There are Millions of people in this world. Then why are you born? The reason is, Allah is expecting something from you, which is not possible by Millions.

  Shahid Afridi

  People, Expecting Something, World

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• Never want something without expecting it

  Bob Proctor

  Want Something, Want

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• Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

  Dalai Lama

  Discipline, Nuclear, Impatience

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• Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

  Simon Sinek

  Generosity, Return, Expecting Nothing In Return

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Mar 16, 2015

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• I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

  Kris Allen

  Giving, Expecting Something, Want

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• My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

  Sally Hawkins

  Character, Feet, Age

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Law, Done

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• It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Greatness, Exaggeration Is, Imagination

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.

  Leonard L. Berry

  Organization, Mind, Management

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• When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Asking

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