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"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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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."
"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
"Expectation creates the reality."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
"We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities."
"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion."
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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."
"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
"Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self."
"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."
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
"But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value."
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
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