Expecting Quotes - Page 24

• For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  People, Occupation, Rooms

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• A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Home, Tchaikovsky, Cds

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• You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

  Jenna Fischer

  Dream, Expectations, Forever

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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• A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

  Sia Furler

  Real, People, Stage

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That's why I try to choose as many different kind of roles as I can so that my fans are not disappointed with me. It would also get boring for me as an actor to keep repeating myself.

  Arjun Rampal

  Ideas, Trying, Able

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• Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Drama, Laughing, Comedy

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Adventure, Arriving

  "Religion and Science". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. I: Ground of Conflict, 1935.

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• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  Thomas Sowell

  Clever, Mean, Common Sense

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

  Erica Jong

  Truth

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.11, Penguin

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• So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Time, Moving, Trying

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• I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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• Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Expectations, Needs, Pandas

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• don't talk about legacy. I have a job to do, and I'm doing it. And I'm not expecting a legacy and I'm not expecting to get pride from some legacy, I'm doing a job that I believe needs to be done. I am willing to do it for the time, and I am not looking for some kind of an accolade or whatever. I don't consider myself anything special. I work hard.

  Frank Lowy

  Jobs, Believe, Hard Work

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

  Aaron Belz

  Fun, Alternatives, Surprise

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Peace, Moving, Home

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• I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Disappointment, Expectations

  Mary Russell Mitford (1872). “Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: Edited by Henry Chorley. In 2 volumes. I”, p.116

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• [On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Attitude, Party, Night

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, People, Victim

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• I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself, it can't just build off the first one or play variations.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Play, Variation

  "Joss Whedon takes on 'Empire Strikes Back,' 'Twilight'". Interview with James Hibberd, www.ew.com. August 22, 2013.

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• By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

  Eric Maisel

  Giving Up, Focus, Decision

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• Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Spiritual, Mean, Alive

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Race, Laughing

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• Just as a random thing, because I can't choose a favorite song ever, I'll go for Minnie Riperton's "Expecting".

  Alison Goldfrapp

  Song, Favorite Song

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• Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

  Andre Dubus

  Father

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• The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here.

  John Madden

  Funny, Running, Nfl

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