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Expectation Quotes
"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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"I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated."
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"This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations."
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"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."
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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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"The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be."
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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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"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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"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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"I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair."
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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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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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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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"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."
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"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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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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"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."
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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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"We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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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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"Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect."
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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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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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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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"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."
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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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"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."
"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."
"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
"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."
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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