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Expectation Quotes
"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 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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"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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"I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them."
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"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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"Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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"Expectation is faith in motion: you expect the things you hope for to happen."
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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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"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 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 never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
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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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"When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica)"
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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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"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."
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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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"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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"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 expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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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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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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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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"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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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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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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"We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people."
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"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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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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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"Expectation works in mysterious ways--and totally unconsciously."
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"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
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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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"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
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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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"Expectation creates the reality."
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