T Quotes
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“The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character.”
“The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?”
“The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.”
Source: Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884
“The expectation of justice is not a privilege with which I had been raised, and staring at the piece of paper, it occurs to me how black and white I have made my entire life out to be. I was going to get my justice; it was rightfully mine. How American of me.”
Source: Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
“The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.”
“The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.”
“The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly.”
“The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.”
Source: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
“The expectation that, if not virtue, then at least good practice would necessarily be rewarded was naive, but that didn't alter the ferocity of the feeling - that”
Source: The Motion of the Body Through Space
“The expectation that models should change in front of people is also a way for the client to exert power. It's both a test and a reminder of your position: everyone else is doing their job; now it's time for you to do yours. The stylist, their assistant, the client or editor, the other models, and sometimes the photographer will stand right in front of you and wait as you strip. You understand that your body is a means for them to accomplish what they're here to accomplish: to make an image to sell whatever it is they're selling. They're in charge of it now, not you. (K-Spa)”
Source: My Body
“the expectation that someone else will, in the long run, make us… happy… is the perfect way to end up… unhappy!”
Source: ERROR: mini-series: Bodily Programs and Romantic Relationships
“The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily and not be touched by it is as unrealistic as expecting to be able to walk through water without getting wet.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom
“The expectation that you bring with you in trading is often the greatest obstacle you will encounter.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: How to cultivate equanimity in the face of market uncertainty
“The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.”
“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
“The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very fixed, given who I am in the world. People have certain expectations of me as an artist.”
“The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures of the world. New pictures cast their influence before facts can be seen in a different perspective.”
“The expectations of women are sometimes so unfair.”
“The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.”
“The expectations that others play on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.”
Source: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
“The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.”
Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
“The expected always happens”
“The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.”
“The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.”
“The expected value of something is not a good guide to its price.”
Source: Financial Calculus: An Introduction to Derivative Pricing
“The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.”
“The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.”
Source: The Tragedy of Macbeth
“The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.”
“The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.”
“The expense of getting into space is the rocket launch, the rocket itself. Rocket's right now, commercial rockets cost probably somewhere between $50, or $120, or $150 million per launch. And those are all expendable. That is, you've got to buy a new rocket for each launch. So, that really is the critical part. If there was some kind of really, a revolutionary breakthrough and the price of rockets fell by an order of magnitude, I mean, just imagine what that would do as far as getting access to more ordinary people.”
“The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honoured in contributing to these expenses.”
“The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.”
“The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000... no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.”
“The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.”
“The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the salesman did.”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.”
“The expensive wine coated my throat with warm notes of fig and vanilla. Mozzarella melted like cream on my tongue and a jumble of lacy and tubular wild mushrooms lent an earthy heartiness to a glistening plate of homemade pappardelle.The dessert- my litmus test for any restaurant, of course- was a flourless chocolate cake so dense and rich that most people would have put down their forks, happily satiated, after a few bites. But Jake knew to untangle his hand from mine when the waiter set the two plates down on the table. Within minutes, I'd finished my entire slice. 'Be still,' I thought, 'o heart of mine,' when I looked up to see that Jake had also scraped his plate clean. 'Finally,' I thought, grinning at him, not caring that my teeth were probably stained a lovely shade of dark chocolate. 'A real man.”
Source: How to Eat a Cupcake
“The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.”
“The experience attained through Zen practice is neither thought nor philosophy nor religion. It is merely a fact. And, strange as it may seem, the experience of that fact has the power to free us from the agonies and pains of the world.”
Source: Zen: The Authentic Gate
“The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.”
“The experience curve says that your costs should probably decline by 15% or 20% with every doubling in your experience making a product, approximately how many of them you turn out. It also says that if you have the biggest market share, meaning the most experience of anybody in your competitive set, you should have the lowest costs, and the resultant capability to underprice your competitors, maybe forever. The abiding lesson of the experience curve is that companies need to discipline themselves to keep reducing their costs, year in, year out, if they are to remain competitive.”
“The experience economy, also known as theatrical economy, offers 6 new types of charging for time entry fees, per-event fees, initiation fees, access fees and membership fees. Creating new ways for business to grow with the experiences with the transformations created. These are engaging events of multiple dimensions. This is a new area for growth and potential and leads to further research on how this will evolve and affect communications.”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.”
Source: Self-help
“The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“The experience holds and executes such a substantial and significant knowledge, for learning that one cannot acquire from the educational institutions.”
“The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.”
“The experience I had all those 40 years of working on Broadway and working on television, I bring it to students and I let them kind of drain me dry but they all feel at the end of the class that they are getting so much out of it. The students grow in my classroom because they feel safe. They don't feel like they're going to be yelled at.”