Expectations Quotes
One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely
High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.
I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.
I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.
So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.
Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.
...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.
By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.
Something you're aware of being a quarterback coming here-you have expectations, and you want to live up to those.
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.
The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.
Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.
I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.
Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.
I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.
Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
