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"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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"Expectations create and shape reality."
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Personal Development

"Weren't you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)"
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"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
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"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."
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"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
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"We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit."
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"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
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"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."
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"Live without expectations. Don't set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life's treasures."
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Life

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
Wealth

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
Future

"The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them."
Destiny

"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day."
Wisdom

"Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."
Wisdom

"A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers."
Society

"Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the world you may find yourself stationed, you will find that place, whatever it may be like, a hospitable home. Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there."
Philosophy

"Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
Philosophy

"He who has great power should use it lightly."
Leadership
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