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“Honestly, you can't manage expectations. It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with everyone else. And everyone else is going to have expectations, and all you can do is do your job and do your best and be true to yourself.”

Jobs Can Do Expectations Honestly Being True Manage Be True To Yourself True To Yourself

Author:Erin Davie

“People can have all the expectations that they want, but I know that you never know what's going to happen in life. Everything is part of the journey.”

People Knows Want Happens Journey Expectations

Author:Erin Davie

“In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high.”

Ifs Knows Poet Standards Expectations England Backgrounds Enormous Ireland Fabric Woven Foreground

Author:David Whyte

“If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.”

Ifs Want Should Expectations Mark Wake Up

Author:Mark Spitz

“Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.”

Doe Has Beens Enjoy Challenges Successful Projects Expectations Incredibles Spending Satisfied Developing My Time Initials Standpoint Linux

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.”

Mean Moments Life Is Situation Keys Expectations Keep Going Fearful Improvisation Preconceptions

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“Good people always rise to your level of expectation.”

People Levels Expectations Good People

Author:John C. Maxwell

“One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.”

Want Humans Wells Children Done Facts Dies House Knowing Tree Dying Expectations Plant Species Damn Human Species Plant A Tree

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Giving means extending one's love with no conditions, no expectations and no boundaries. . . Peace of minds occurs, therefore, when we put all our attention into giving and have no desire to get anything from, or to change, another person. . . The giving motivation leads to a sense of inner peace and joy that is unrelated to time.”

Giving Mind Mean Persons Joy Desire Motivation Attention Conditions Expectations Inner Peace Boundaries Peace Of Mind Extending No Boundaries Peace And Joy

Book:Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition

Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition

“Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.”

Our Lives Expectations

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.”

Trying Mean Stills Two Stories Speak Sides Degrees Expectations Manage Relate Two Sides Positive Things

Author:Q-Tip

“When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."”

World Writing Attitude Worst Expectations Junk Freeze Expectations Of Yourself

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“The one thing I’ve always had going for me was people’s low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me.”

People Whole Hell One Thing Lows Expectations Low Expectations

Author:Chris Isaak

“We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.”

Fighting Alive Expectations Triumph

Author:T. S. Eliot

“[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.”

Want Liberty Principles Security Needed Expectations Protection Privacy Excess Identification Personal Liberty

Author:Bill McCollum

“I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.”

Feels Looks Felt Television Degrees Expectations Raises Separation Clever

Author:Alan Thicke

“So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.”

Firsts I Can Young Loses Powerful Smart Expectations Fantastic Wow Retrospect Charismatic Snowden Really Powerful

Author:Laura Poitras

“It's hard to see potential in a rough cut - especially with comedy, which is hit or miss. This is where my lack of experience hurt me - not in the execution of the final product, but with my expectations for it in the early stages of post.”

Hard Hurt Comedy Cutting Stage Missing Products Expectations Finals Posts Rough Execution Hurt Me

Author:Desiree Akhavan

“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”

Soul Hope Literature Too Much Expectations Disappointment Disappoint Bankruptcy Disappointment Love Disappointment In Friends Hopes And Expectations Life Disappointment People Disappoint

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.”

Ifs Enough Might Certain One Thing Highest Expectations Firm Fortunate Globes Entitled Transport

Book:Discourse On Method, Meditations And Principles: Descartes : Discourse On Method

Source: Discourse On Method, Meditations And Principles: Descartes : Discourse On Method

“I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."”

Ifs World Trying Done Acting Depends Letting Go Approach Expectations Passionate Intensity Acting As If

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it will vary. Probability is the expectation founded upon partial knowledge.”

Thinking May States Reason Use Happens Term Failing Events Information Acceptance Circumstances Degrees Expectations Mathematical Probability Vary

Book:An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

Source: An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

“Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.”

Law Audience Risk Lessons Taste Mass Expectations Strategy Corporate Originality Status Quo Laws Of Nature Axioms Artifacts

Author:A. O. Scott

“By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.”

Men Past Failing Expectations One Man Prudent Things Past

Book:Leviathan, Parts I and II

Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II

“I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first.”

Knows Firsts Mean Two Whole Please Expectations

Author:Jimy Williams

“Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.”

May Stills Belief Understanding Habit Expectations Relation

Author:David Hume

“The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.”

Problem Expectations Ambitious

Author:Geoffrey Moore

“Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.”

Ifs Men Feels Mind Order Decision Loneliness He Man Expectations Uncertainty Penalties

Book:South

Source: South

“When I die I want a child that never met me, to hear were I came from and what I accomplished and for him or her to live their life to the fullest and do what they were put on this world to do. No limitations, blowing past everybody's expectations. Screw whatever body thinks!”

Thinking World Want Children Body Past Dies This World Mets Expectations Limitation Accomplished Screws

Author:Richard Cabral

“I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.”

Ifs Feels Kind Moments Facts Film Games Results Audience Members Judgment Expectations Appearance Theme Layers Superficial Viewers Twists

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.”

Thinking Way Looks Hard Youth Expectations Adults

Author:Liz W. Garcia

“Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.”

May Young Certain Teach College Expectations Starting Gender Young Women Starting Out

Author:Liza Johnson

“I've seen so many people in my life struggle tremendously to fit into those boxes or to live up to those expectations or pressures put upon them by whatever society's concept of 'normal' is. I get frustrated by rules and regulations. I'm frustrated by things that are exclusive to one particular life choice.”

People Choices Struggle Particular Fit Normal Expectations Concepts Pressure Boxes Regulation Frustrated Exclusive Life Choices Life Struggle Rules And Regulations

Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

“I certainly wouldn't go back and blame feminism, because all that feminism was really trying to do, which was huge, was to create a new set of expectations, a new set of opportunities for women, and they did.”

Trying Opportunity Feminism Huge Expectations Blame

Author:Debora Spar

“If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.”

People Ifs Needs Problem Successful Expectations Significant Being Successful Credibility Degrade

Author:Chris Lehane

“A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the warning will be to not panic if there is an emergency. To listen to directions. Now that's a waste. They could have given you information, but you can see their expectation that you're going to screw up.”

Ifs Given Information Waste Expectations Theater Warning Panic Screws Emergencies Thrust Subway Screw Ups Movie Theater

Author:Amanda Ripley

“My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.”

People Littles Expectations Boxes Newspapers Cartoon

Author:Tom Tomorrow

“I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.”

Thinking Men Different Kids Certain Roles Amount Married Expectations Overcoming Gender Partnership Gender Roles Housework

Author:Alison Pill

“Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.”

Giving Humans Human Beings Return Expectations

Author:Bill Bradley

“Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.”

Sometimes Expectations Best Things Unexpected Things In Life Best Things In Life Positive Expectations Unexpected Things Unexpected Turns Best Things In Life Are Free Unexpected Events

Author:Faith Sullivan

“I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.”

Trying Expectations Setting Settings Exhaustion Junkie

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”

Life Humans Hope Human Beings Expectations Without Hope Hopes And Expectations

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Whether we experience it or not, grief accompanies all the major changes in our lives. When we realize that we have grieved before and recovered, we see that we may recover this time as well. It is more natural to recover than to halt in the tracks of grief forever. Our expectations, willingness and beliefs are all essential to our recovery from grief. It is right to expect to recover, no matter how great the loss. Recovery is the normal way .”

Way Wells May Matter Belief Realizing Natural Loss Grief Forever Our Lives Essentials Normal Majors Expectations Track Recovery Willingness Halt Accompany Major Change

Author:Judy Tatelbaum

“Society is so tough and expectations are so unrealistic. Could I take better care of myself? Absolutely. I joke all the time that I'm old and I'm getting older and I feel it, so I guess I would rather talk about it with a smile and say, 'Oh God, I'm old!' than spend all my time at the dermatologist. I approach aging with ice cream and a martini.”

Feels Care Approach Jokes Expectations Tough Aging Ice My Time Cream Ice Cream Getting Old Getting Older Martini

Author:Jenna Lyons

“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.”

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

Wells Has Beens Half Expectations Customers Beer Sanguine

Author:John Molson

“There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.”

Wells Kind Has Beens Seems Expectations Unfair

Author:Angel Olsen

“The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.”

Mind Persons Possibility Expectations Impact Harm Load Garbage Dump

Book:See You at the Top

Source: See You at the Top

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

Doe Genius Expectations True Genius

Author:Paula Abdul

“The secret to happiness is having low expectations.”

Secret Lows Expectations Secret To Happiness Low Expectations

Author:Warren Buffett

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