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"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens."
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"She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all."
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"We tend to live up to our expectations."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
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"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."
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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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"When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience."
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"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
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"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
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"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."
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"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
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"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
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"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
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"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
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"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
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"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
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"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
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