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Image of Jodi Picoult
Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.
- Jodi Picoult
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Image of Lionel Shriver
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
- Lionel Shriver
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Image of James Redfield
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.
- James Redfield
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of Jodi Picoult
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
- Jodi Picoult
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Image of David Whyte
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high.
- David Whyte
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Image of Steven Furtick
If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.
- Steven Furtick
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Image of Frederic Bastiat
Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.
- Frederic Bastiat
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Image of Oswald Spengler
We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.
- Oswald Spengler
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Image of John Naisbitt
Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.
- John Naisbitt
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Image of Orhan Pamuk
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
- Orhan Pamuk
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Image of Dennis Prager
Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness
- Dennis Prager
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Image of Philip Zimbardo
Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.
- Philip Zimbardo
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Image of Joyce Meyer
You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.
- Joyce Meyer
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Image of Rajneesh
Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Kate Morton
Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.
- Kate Morton
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Image of Jodi Picoult
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?
- Jodi Picoult
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of George Will
Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history.
- George Will
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Image of Neale Donald Walsch
If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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Image of Emma Watson
All the baggage that comes with fame, being an actress. The down side to it is the intrusion into your life and this expectation that because they've seen you onscreen, they kind of have a right to you as a human being and personally and in your life.
- Emma Watson
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Image of Joel Osteen
My actions will follow my expectations.
- Joel Osteen
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Chloe Grace Moretz
If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.
- Chloe Grace Moretz
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Image of Steve Almond
People in long-term, monogamous relationships are crushed by the expectation that a partner is going to provide everything they are looking for and wondering why they are dissatisfied when they have four of the ten boxes checked.
- Steve Almond
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Image of Wendell Berry
We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
- Wendell Berry
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Image of Esther Hicks
The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It's not testing you. It's benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrater. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation. It is excited anticipation.
- Esther Hicks
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Image of Juan Manuel Santos
I don't like to generate too many expectations.
- Juan Manuel Santos
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Image of Hannah More
Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.
- Hannah More
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Image of Laozi
Act without expectation.
- Laozi
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Image of William P. Young
Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
- William P. Young
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Image of Alan Rickman
I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
- Alan Rickman
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Image of Tablo
These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.
- Tablo
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Image of Rajneesh
Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Esther Hicks
You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.
- Esther Hicks
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Image of Seth
Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.
- Seth
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Image of Veronica Roth
I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.
- Veronica Roth
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Image of Sophie Swetchine
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
- Sophie Swetchine
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Image of Warren Buffett
There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.
- Warren Buffett
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Image of Deepak Chopra
Abundance comes from within it comes from thought , intention, attention and expectation
- Deepak Chopra
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Image of George W. Bush
I'm the master of low expectations.
- George W. Bush
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Image of Les Brown
WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.
- Les Brown
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