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Expectation Quotes
"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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"I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated."
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"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens."
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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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"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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"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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"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."
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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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"This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations."
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"Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them."
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"Expectation is faith in motion: you expect the things you hope for to happen."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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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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"We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God."
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"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."
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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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"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
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"Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect."
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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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"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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"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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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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"Expectation creates the reality."
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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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"Live without expectations. Don't set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life's treasures."
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"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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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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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
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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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"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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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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"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
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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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"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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"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
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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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"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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