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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."
"Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great."
"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled."
"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."
"So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to."
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."
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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
"Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be."Foolhardy?" Kelsier asked with a laugh. "that wasn't foolhardy - that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I'm planning to do!Dockson stood for a moment then he laughed too. "By the Lord Ruler, it's good to have you back, kell! I'm afraid I've grown rather boring during the last few years""We'll fix that" Kelsier promised."
"Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth."
"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."
"Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you'd be accustomed to it by now.He grunted. "Be careful, girl. You wouldn't want to accidentally insult a man."The last thing I'd want to do is accidentally insult you, Vathah, Shallan said. "To think that Icouldn't manage it on purpose if I wanted!"
"He didn't recruit me, Cett pointed out. "I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco."I wish I cared enough to apologize, Elend said, staring at them."
"My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently."
"So, Marasi said, "you traded a dead man's scarf for another dead man's gun. But the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic-"Don't try, Waxillium said. "Logic doesn't work on Wayne."I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller, Wayne explained. "It lets me add two 'n' two and get a pickle."
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