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"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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Personal Development
"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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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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Personal Development
"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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Personal Development
"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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Personal Development
"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be."
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Personal Development
"Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional."
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Personal Development
"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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Personal Development
"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
Desire
"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
Desire
"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."
Time
"It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words."
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."
Thought
"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
Experience
"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."
Thought
"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
Perception
"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."
Action
"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
Life
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