"The fewer expectations you have, the better."

Expectation, Expectations

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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."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"We tend to live up to our expectations."

Earl Nightingale, American Entertainer

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"Expectation creates the reality."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."

Joyce Maynard, American Writer

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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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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."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Expectation, Reality, Marriage, Life

"They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up."

Franklin Raines, American Businessman

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"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."

Artist, First, Woman

"A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire."

Life, Idea, Electricity, English

"People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for."

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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

Architecture, Music, Dancing, Writing

"Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something."

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"The problem with prototypes is they don't always work."

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"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways."

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"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."

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"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."

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"I think women are excellent social critics."

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