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“Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.”

Political Belief Economic Produce Expectations Selfish Rational Voters Severe Biased

Author:Bryan Caplan

“We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.”

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Book:Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Source: Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

“We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.”

People Our Lives Expectations Endure Burden Prisoner One Time Despise

Book:Exile: The Legend of Drizzt

Source: Exile: The Legend of Drizzt

“Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!”

Feels Reason Feelings Alive Expectations Priorities Feel Good No Reason Why Not Cheerfulness Playfulness

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.”

Writing Faces Challenges Fiction Careers Reader Expectations Meetings Genre

Author:Julia Quinn

“I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.”

Hard Seems Belief Study Expectations Add Profound Jew Worthy Noble Spots Reports Superstitions Rubbish Goyim

Author:H. L. Mencken

“When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.”

People Firsts School Democracy Expectations Vote Get Better Garbage Get Rich Disillusioned

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I know most of my records are real good but I know that there are definitely things I would've changed at the end of the day. I work on things forever, and there are things I wish I didn't do, but ultimately I know the records are good. I kind of let go of big expectations, maybe because hopefully that means if I don't have them, that it'll do really well, but you just never know.”

Ifs Knows Wells Kind Mean Real Ends Bigs Wish Forever Records Changed Letting Go Expectations Hopefully The End Of The Day

Author:Kurt Vile

“Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.”

Happens Waiting Expectations Resentment

Book:Crooked Little Heart: A Novel

Source: Crooked Little Heart: A Novel

“The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.”

Expectations Labor Raises Wit Satisfied Novelty Jest

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.”

Hands Flower Expectations Staring Bees Cautious Bouquets

Author:Dean Koontz

“But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.”

Thinking Persons Doe States Culture Cold Expectations Discovery Faults Warmth Womb Cold Outside

Book:Earthly Powers

Source: Earthly Powers

“The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.”

World Ends Reality Audience Expectations Disappointment

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.”

Self Mother Culture Demand Expectations Complicated Internals Being A Mother

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.”

One Thing Expectations

Author:Kate Morton

“When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.”

Two Felt Growing Up Growing Crazy Middle Expectations Two Things Middle Ground

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.”

World Way Should Kind Art Self Feelings Audience Creative Expression Industry Expectations Excited Engagement Constraints Self Expression

Author:Ayad Akhtar

“Its a call-to-action to rise from the dead and actually live. Were born spiritually dead, and Im calling for everyone to become spiritually alive. Secondly, dont wait until later to live the way you were created. God created you to honor Him, find joy, and serve others. Dont sleep on that. Lastly, rise above the low expectations people have.”

People Way Action Joy Waiting Born Sleep Alive Honor Calling Lows Expectations Rise Above Low Expectations Call To Action

Author:Trip Lee

“Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.”

Results Degrees Expectations Boxes Penalties Dell

Author:Chuck Jones

“As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.”

Want Fans Expectations Creator Betray

Author:Hideo Kojima

“Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.”

Knows Want Feels Hard Fans Expectations Spots Want Me Know Me

Author:Chris Lilley

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

Thinking Looks Whole Race Expectations Seasons

Author:Casey Stoner

“Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.”

Writing Fighting Enemy Risk Expectations Stupidity Invisible Narcissism Invincible Over Confidence

Author:Andrea Hirata

“I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.”

Expectations Moved London

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because its not fair.”

Expectations Fairs Not Fair

Author:Joel Siegel

“Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.”

Inspirational Young Communication Return Expectations Fellows Great Expectations Great Expectations Important

Author:Charles Dickens

“... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.”

Doe Body Funny Turns Expectations Humorous Wine Bottom Glasses Excuse Noses Wine Glass Rims Great Expectations Important

Book:Great Expectations

Source: Great Expectations

“Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.”

Funny Choices Belief Water Virtue Fine Expectations Conscious Humorous Medicine Medical Beast Fence Great Expectations Cupboards Elixir Nastiness Great Expectations Important

Book:Great Expectations

Source: Great Expectations

“Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.”

Thinking Ends Expectations Negative Routes Dead Ends

Book:Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

Source: Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.”

Years Growth Community Half Expectations Percent Viewers June Broadcasters

Author:Emmett Shear

“I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.”

Kind Expectations Uncertainty Great Expectations

Author:David Nicholls

“There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.”

Hard Whole Character Literature Century Expectations Minors 19th Century Orphan Shortage Parental Great Expectations Widows And Orphans Minor Characters

Author:David Nicholls

“We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship - we don't want this relationship to go out of control.”

Want Needs Different Expectations Concerned Russia Manage Moscow Troubled Relationship Hopes And Expectations

Author:Dimitri Simes

“The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.”

Want Limits Expectations Hollywood Machines Marketing

Author:Terry Gilliam

“Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.”

Please Expectations Scary Heavenly

Author:John Edward

“It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.”

Ifs Should Ends Moments Choices Courses Hurt Expectations Angry Stuck Traffic Horns Jam Traffic Jam Hurting Yourself

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.”

Acceptance Expectations Resentment

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.”

Feels Looks Feelings Social Forever Comfortable Lows Standards Expectations Awkward Retarded Low Expectations

Author:Earl Sweatshirt

“Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we filmmakers made.”

Want Made Water Decision Audience Expectations Filmmaker Crave

Author:Tom Hanks

“When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it your director, or fellow actors and the writers. So, that's kind of it - I try to trick myself into believing that no one has ever gone there before.”

People Ifs Trying Believe Kind Persons Actors Process Gone Creative Imagine Seeing Directors Expectations Fellows Tricks Overwhelming Imagine That Creative Process Closest

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I don't know whether it's spiritual development or trying to learn the psychologically with being an actor, but I realise the more I get into it that this was something I was always supposed to do. That allowed me to sit easiser in the life I was living. But that doesn't mean to say you just stroll through it. It takes work and the work is not always about acting. It's sometimes about how you deal with the ups and downs of hope, of expectation.”

Knows Trying Mean Sometimes Spiritual Actors Deals Acting Development Expectations Realising Ups & Downs Spiritual Development

Author:Gerard Butler

“When you love, love with with all your heart; don't have any expectations. You love because that's the only way you know how. It justifies your life.”

Knows Way Life Heart Love Is Know How Expectations Justify

Author:Rita Zahara

“The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.”

Love Perspective Involved Expectations Shame Sexuality Enormous Degrade

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.”

Inspirational Found Focus Expectations Appreciation Absence

Author:Tony Robbins

“The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.”

Giving Fall Elements Expectations Unexpected Relish

Author:Winston Churchill

“If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears. co-author with Niles Eldridge”

Ifs Doe Expectations Areas Transformation Species Population Arise Locals Evolve Ancestor Isolated Fossils Sequence Great Expectations Chimera

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.”

World Want Persons I Can Chance Scene Expectations Disappear Harsh Ruthless Good Chance

Author:Tom Hanks

“As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.”

Long Expectations Zest Postman

Author:William James

“In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.”

Should Mind Kind Country States Pain Fall Poor Citizens Expectations Fellows Rewards Sensible Virtuous Public Service Endeavour Free State

Book:Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words

Source: Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words

“Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.”

Source: Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].

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