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Expectation Quotes
"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."
"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."
"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."
"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
"With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it."
"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair."
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."
"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
"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."
"I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated."
"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."
"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
"This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations."
"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.)"
"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
"I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me."
"I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them."
"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."
"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."
"They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up."
"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."
"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."
"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
"Expectation creates the reality."
"We tend to live up to our expectations."
"She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all."
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