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"I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated."
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"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure."
Success
"I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking."
Career
"I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big."
Life
"Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived."
Life
"I love being verbal in films."
Love
"Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting."
Action
"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."
Woman
"Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived."
Life
"When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life."
Life
"What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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Personal Development
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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Personal Development
"Expectations create and shape reality."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
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Personal Development
"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
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Personal Development
"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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Personal Development
"The problem with many people is that they would plant a pear tree and expect it to bear some mango fruit."
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Personal Development
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