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Expectation Quotes
"I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high."
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"I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations."
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"I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations."
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"The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it."
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"Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire."
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"I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them."
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"I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual."
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"Expectation is faith in motion: you expect the things you hope for to happen."
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"Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them."
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"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
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"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
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"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
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"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
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"The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same."
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"Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over."
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"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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"We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit."
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"If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have."
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"When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica)"
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"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
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"We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities."
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"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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"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."
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"Expectation works in mysterious ways--and totally unconsciously."
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"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
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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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"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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"Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect."
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"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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"We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people."
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"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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"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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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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"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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"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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"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."
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"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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"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
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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."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
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