Expectations Quotes

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.

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.

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.

You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.

Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

You can have all you can expect and accept.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

I'm a child of the 50s. I was expected to have table manners. There needs to be some expectations for behavior. I'm seeing some children today, they don't push them enough.

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

You are still guided by your expectations.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

The threshold is the place of expectation.

My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

High expectations is the key to everything.

We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.

I have hope. I have no expectations.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.

I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

True genius does not fulfill expectations; true genius shatters it.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by the impressions and expectations of others.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

He who has never hoped can never despair