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"This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations."
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"We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender."
"I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like."
"The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for."
"You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again."
"It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about."
"These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day."
"That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out."
Exlpore more Expectation quotes
"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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