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Image of Paula Scher
Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
- Paula Scher
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Image of Colin Firth
I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.
- Colin Firth
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Image of Barbara Ehrenreich
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
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Image of Peter Drucker
Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.
- Peter Drucker
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Image of Allyson Felix
For me, there's a lot of expectations and you want to be able to live up to them.
- Allyson Felix
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Image of Evan Esar
Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
- Evan Esar
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Image of Walter Schloss
Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.
- Walter Schloss
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Image of Kofi Annan
In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.
- Kofi Annan
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Image of Nora Ephron
I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?
- Nora Ephron
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Image of Evan Esar
Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.
- Evan Esar
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Image of Terry Gilliam
The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.
- Terry Gilliam
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Image of Criss Jami
To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.
- Criss Jami
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Image of Seth Godin
Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
- Seth Godin
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Image of Criss Jami
To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
- Criss Jami
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Image of John Green
I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.
- John Green
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Image of Elizabeth Gilbert
I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Image of Felix Frankfurter
We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.
- Felix Frankfurter
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The threshold is the place of expectation.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Seth Godin
Surprise comes from defying expectations.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Baltasar Gracian
Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
- Baltasar Gracian
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Image of Margaret Atwood
He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.
- Margaret Atwood
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Image of Lou Holtz
You live up - or down - to your expectations.
- Lou Holtz
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Image of Aleksandar Hemon
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
- Aleksandar Hemon
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Image of Anthony Hopkins
I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.
- Anthony Hopkins
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Image of Nathaniel Hawthorne
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Image of Amber Heard
I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.
- Amber Heard
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Image of Kehinde Wiley
Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so Lacanian and, like, mirrored, so as to be ridiculous. But there are very fixed sets of expectations that the world has about this work.
- Kehinde Wiley
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Image of Anthony Hopkins
I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins." I looked around, because I really thought Nick Nolte would get it. I really thought Nick would get it. I was very surprised. It was neck and neck with Nick Nolte and myself. So I really was expecting that to happen, and I went in there without any expectations.
- Anthony Hopkins
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Image of Jane Austen
..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself
- Jane Austen
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Image of Margaret Atwood
expectation isn't the same as desire
- Margaret Atwood
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Image of Bashar al-Assad
We don't have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it's about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.
- Bashar al-Assad
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Image of Tommy Hilfiger
When travelling, dress as comfortably as possible and don't have expectations of everything going perfectly.
- Tommy Hilfiger
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Image of Norton Juster
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
- Norton Juster
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Image of Norton Juster
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
- Norton Juster
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Image of Curtis Jackson
The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.
- Curtis Jackson
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Image of David Hume
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.
- David Hume
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Image of Nicole Kidman
I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
- Nicole Kidman
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Image of Chuck Jones
Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
- Chuck Jones
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Image of Ivan Illich
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.
- Ivan Illich
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Image of Carl Jung
A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.
- Carl Jung
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Image of Samuel Johnson
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Samuel Johnson
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of P. D. James
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.
- P. D. James
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Image of John Maynard Keynes
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
- John Maynard Keynes
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Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Image of Bruce Lee
I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.
- Bruce Lee
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Image of Charles Krauthammer
When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.
- Charles Krauthammer
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Image of David Levithan
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
- David Levithan
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