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Image of Dov Davidoff
Please reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going.
- Dov Davidoff
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Image of Jeff Lindsay
I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.
- Jeff Lindsay
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
Most people have always done better than their parents, and their parents have done pretty well, and there's always been a sense of expectation or entitlement. It's part of being an American in a sense.
- Rush Limbaugh
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Image of Mike Krzyzewski
You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.
- Mike Krzyzewski
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Image of Anne Lamott
Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
- Anne Lamott
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Image of Heath Ledger
I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.
- Heath Ledger
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Image of Christian Bale
After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
- Christian Bale
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Image of Dalai Lama
An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.
- Dalai Lama
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Image of Barbara Kingsolver
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
- Barbara Kingsolver
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Image of Jonathan Kozol
I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations
- Jonathan Kozol
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Image of Doris Lessing
All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.
- Doris Lessing
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Image of Thomas Malthus
Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.
- Thomas Malthus
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Image of Audre Lorde
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.
- Audre Lorde
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Image of Ian Mckellen
The audience's expectations are ever-present.
- Ian Mckellen
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