“One thing that I've found is that people could relate and see different qualities in the video that they enjoyed. That wasn't something I was necessarily expecting.” PeopleDifferentFoundQualityOne ThingVideoEnjoyedRelateExpecting Author:Emily Ratajkowski
“The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.” PeopleThinkingKindChildrenLosesUnderstoodWeightPartnersAwfulExpectingSudden Death Author:Carolyn Hax
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” InspirationalSelfMotivationalActionHappinessSuccessHopeSportsCan DoActingAttitudeConfidenceSucceedBasketballExpectationsAthleteBelieve In YourselfSelf MotivationHockeyExpectingSuccessful PeopleSuccess In LifeInspirational SportsKey To SuccessFunny InspirationalRoad To SuccessRecipe For SuccessTrust YourselfBe True To YourselfHave ConfidenceBasketball PlayerFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballMotivational Inspirational SportsBasketball MotivationSelf Esteem And ConfidenceGreat SportsAthlete MotivationalConfidence In YourselfBest SportsShort SportsShort Inspirational SportsGreatest SportsShort Motivational SportsNba PlayerGreat BasketballAwesome SportsGreat Inspirational SportsGreat Motivational SportsCoaches MotivationalBasketball GameConfidence And LoveGreatest AthleteAthletic MotivationalAthletic InspirationalBasketball TeamworkBest BasketballInspirational ConfidenceInspirational WinningBasketball SuccessSelf Confidence MotivationalSports SpiritGreatest BasketballConfidence LoveInspirational Self ConfidenceCoaches And AthletesAwesome BasketballBasketball Is My LifeGreat AthleticBasketball Is LifeBasketball And LifeBasketball LifeGame Day Author:Michael Jordan
“I don't know anything about you, so when you randomly come up and grab my ass, this isn't a friend doing it. It's like, "Who the f### is doing...? I was not expecting that."” KnowsCome UpAssExpecting Author:Brad Williams
“I like somebody I can consider edgy, because, I also find that when people see me; the first thing they might think about me, musically, is that I rap or make beats, in the sense of trap or hip-hop or whatever, and when they hear what I actually create, they'll often be like, 'Wait a minute, I wasn't expecting this'.” PeopleThinkingFirstsI CanMightWaitingMinutesBeatsHip HopRapHipsHopsExpectingTrapsOften IsEdgy Author:Jlin
“Well, when you think music-wise, and if you hang with me or you see me or whatever, the average person will be like 'oh yeah, she probably raps'. This is that stereotype and then I do what I do, so they're more like 'oh, I wasn't expecting this whatsoever'. This especially links with the idea of being a woman in this kind of work and within the footwork genre.” IfsThinkingWellsKindPersonsIdeasWiseYeahAverageRapGenreLinksExpectingStereotypeBeing A WomanAverage PersonFootwork Author:Jlin
“If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.” IfsAbleRevelationsExpectingAlterationsStart The Day Author:Ian Bogost
“You have to get lucky. Whether that's a good captain's pick, or two rookies combining for five points, if you get that, those are points you really aren't expecting.” IfsTwoFiveLuckyPicksExpectingCaptainsCombiningRookies Author:Nick Faldo
“We have a great field and I'm very happy about that. It's a tough time of year as it gets closer to the Masters, but I'm appreciative of the players who are here, and I'm expecting a great week.” YearsPlayerWeekFieldsMastersToughExpectingVery HappyTough TimesAppreciative Author:Arnold Palmer
“The critiques I received from my father's community didn't actually have to do with any of the things I'd been afraid of - spiritual or cultural aspects - they were more annoyed that I'd killed off this character or those characters hadn't hooked up or I'd done an open ending and it didn't give them a sense of closure that they were expecting.” GivingDoneCharacterSpiritualFatherCommunityAspectExpectingCritiqueAnnoyedHookedClosure Author:Eden Robinson
“All those awkward moments - that's on the cast for doing such an amazing job. I think it was funny on the page, but when they did it, you definitely went, "Oh!" Watching it with a crowd that, like you said, was not expecting it to be funny, but then genuinely finding it funny, is totally a credit to their performances.” ThinkingSaidMomentsJobsLike YouFindingsPagesPerformancesCastsCrowdsCreditExpectingAwkwardAmazing Job Author:Ti West
“It bothers me when people, say, you know, write for, you know, a web publication and get paid little or nothing or, you know, expecting to, like, read the best newspapers in the world and not pay a cent for it. Those newspapers need money in order to operate.” PeopleKnowsWorldNeedsWritingLittlesOrderPayPaidNewspapersBotherExpectingCentsPublicationNeed Money Author:Terry Gross
“Certainly nobody gets married wanting to get divorced or even expecting to - except me.” MarriedExpectingDivorced Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to transcend our ordinary conventional mind. This takes an enormous amount of determination and perseverance. It also requires an attitude of being relaxed and spacious, rather than tense and stressed. It's certainly not a matter of lying back and expecting it all to happen. If we don't make it happen, it won't!” IfsMindMatterWholeHappensLyingAttitudeBuddhismAmountOrdinaryDeterminationPerseveranceActiveEnormousExpectingConventionalRelaxedTenseStressedMake It HappenPerseverance And Determination Author:Tenzin Palmo
“What [Donald] has put up for question is this idea of tariffs. Initially, he said if China won't stop taking advantage of us and manipulating their currency, then I will put tariffs in place. That spooked everybody because if you charge China a fee and an extra tariff for anything they bring into the United States, what's going to happen is that companies carrying those goods are going to raise prices. It's going to be expensive for people. People got scared of that, but then he walked that [idea] back. I don't think anybody is expecting heavy tariffs on anything.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidIdeasStatesHappensUnitedCompanyUnited StatesAdvantageRaisesScaredHeavyChinaExtrasExpensiveGoodsExpectingCurrencyFeesTaking AdvantageTariffs Author:Maria Bartiromo
“I think that in the last eight years, we were averaging economic growth of about 2 percent. It's not good. It's very slow. It's a slow pace. People are expecting that pace to continue if Hillary Clinton becomes president.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLastsGrowthPresidentEconomicPercentClintonEightPaceExpectingEconomic Growth Author:Maria Bartiromo
“I'm not expecting a big sell-off but I do think that if we don't have a move toward economic growth and policies that will promote economic growth and get us out of this 2 percent world - we really need to see 4 percent, 5 percent - to see jobs created, and if we don't see that longer-term, yeah the market will sell-off...[but] I do think things are getting better. It's just been very slow.” IfsThinkingWorldNeedsBigsJobsMovingGrowthTermEconomicPolicyPercentYeahSellsGet BetterExpectingEconomic GrowthThings Are Getting Better Author:Maria Bartiromo
“The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.” FirstsSaidStatesBigsMovingGoalSecretDemocracyRevolutionPeriodsCapitalismClaimsMovedUnionsSocialismTendenciesRevolutionaryGermanyOrthodoxSovietExpectingSocialistThey SaidSoviet UnionMarxistMoved OnStalinismBolsheviks Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.” UseShowsHandsDealsHalfSixSittingDollarsCarefulBillionsExpectingNow And ThenMarsOctober Author:Warren Buffett
“Some people really expected he could do that, would do that. They're not expecting [Donald Trump] to target Hillary [Clinton], just to clean out the swamp.” PeopleTrumpCleanClintonExpectedTargetExpectingSwamps Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.” WholeStyleSurpriseAlbumsExpectingDon't Change Author:Rakim
“Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.” KnowsKindnessReturnFavorsEach DayExpectingActs Of KindnessReassuringExpecting SomethingExpecting Something In Return Author:Tara Brach
“That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the United States. And there were famous incidents like with the MS Saint Louis, which brought a lot of immigrants, mostly Jewish, from Europe. It reached Cuba, with people expecting to be admitted to the United States from there. But the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn't allow them in and they had to go back to Europe where many of them died in concentration camps.” PeopleStatesReasonUnitedUnited StatesEuropeDiedSaintAdministrationReason WhyGermanyConcentrationImmigrantsCampsFascismExpectingIncidentsCubaFranklinFleeingConcentration Camp Author:Noam Chomsky
“Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break.” GivingTryingKindSongDealsBreakRecordsCoupleLuckyContractsExpectingTapeAndrewDemosLucky Breaks Author:George Michael
“The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.” AmericaDiesHeavenSkyExpectingSectionsSeparatingAfros Author:Malcolm X
“I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research. I didn't know the towns my mother and father came from in Russia. I didn't know the name of the clothing store I went to work for when I was 11 years old. I didn't know a lot of things. So I called for my FBI files, not expecting to have that stuff there, but I wanted to know what they had on me.But they did have the towns my mother and father lived in in Russia. They had the grocery store I worked in when I was 11 years old.” KnowsWritingYearsWantedMotherFatherNamesStuffBoysResearchTownsStoresRussiaHolesClothingsExpectingBostonFilesFbiGroceriesMother And FatherGrocery Stores Author:Nat Hentoff
“Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.” WarSouthThanksBusVietnamExpectingJohnsonVietnam WarRiot Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“I didn't want to take the typical action roles that everybody was expecting me to take, because I was going to get typecast as that guy, the action guy who didn't have anything really bright to say and who just kicked in doors and punched people in the face and shot people and drove off in a cool car. I didn't want to be that guy.” PeopleWantActionFacesGuyRolesDoorsCarShotsExpectingTypicalThat GuyCool Cars Author:Dave Bautista
“When you are incubating new ideas, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is very good advice. But when you are seeking to transform your enterprise's portfolio by scaling a fledgling business to material size - say ten percent of total enterprise revenue - then it is imperative that you make that the singular focus of everyone in the enterprise for the two to three year period it is likely to require to reach its tipping point. Expecting to do two such scaling efforts in parallel is simply folly, yet that is what the "eggs/basket" idea is often used to justify.” YearsTwoIdeasUsedThreeEffortFocusAdviceMaterialsPeriodsTenPercentVery GoodSizeSeekingFollyEnterpriseJustifyEggsThree YearsExpectingNew IdeasRevenueParallelsImperativesBasketsGood AdvicePortfoliosTippingTipping PointEggs In One BasketFledglings Author:Geoffrey Moore
“I don`t think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there`s no way to force them to, but expecting the Mexicans to pay for it doesn`t make any sense either.” ThinkingWayWantForcePayWallTrumpExpecting Author:John Yarmuth
“We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.” PeopleWayGivingCultureCoursesOpportunityCommunityResponsibilityProtectEmploymentRelateNeighborhoodExpectingRight WayBegging Author:David Banner
“If you think that people today, like Hollywood, are ever gonna sing [Donald] Trump's praises, it's never gonna happen. It's only going to get worse. And they know it at the White House. They're not expecting these people to be won over. That's not why Trump's doing anything he's doing. They don't expect the establishment types to one day say, "You know what? You're right, Mr. Trump, this is great. We like what you're doing." It's never gonna happen. They don't expect that to happen.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHappensTodayHouseWhiteTypeTrumpOne DayHollywoodPraiseWhite HouseEstablishmentExpecting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.” PeopleCommunityFinancialConsiderationExpecting Author:Nelson Mandela
“I just think the more the media uses their time-honored blueprint techniques to destroy Republican politicians... It hasn't worked on Trump yet, and they've been trying it a year and a half, folks. We're dangerously close here to the definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result." It's not Trump who's insane. Trump's having the time of his life.” ThinkingTryingYearsDifferentUseResultsHalfMediaTrumpPoliticianRepublicanFolksDefinitionsTechniqueInsaneInsanityExpectingHonoredBlueprintsDefinition Of Insanity Author:Rush Limbaugh
“That's what the news is: You turn on the news every night, whatever you watch, and you're expecting to see things that you didn't know happened. And that's not what it is.” KnowsNightTurnsWatchesHappenedNewsExpectingEvery NightTurn-on Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.” MotivationalSuccessMotivationGoalChanceHeardPositiveResearchSittingCommitmentPersistenceExpectingPersistChances AreSitting DownStumblingFamous InspirationalTop 100Motivational Keep GoingKeep PositiveLeast Expecting Author:Charles Kettering
“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsTwoCountryStatesTurnsCultureChristUnitedPartyHalfUnited StatesCoupleThousandProtectGunYears AgoThirdsPopulationUsaExpectingThousand YearsGun Culture Author:Noam Chomsky
“That's what I strive for every time I'm in the studio, to make sure that y'all love it and that I'm not giving y'all something I'm expecting you to buy. I want y'all to want to buy it and want to hear it again. If you like it, go get it, if you don't, throw it out.” IfsWantGivingStriveStudiosExpectingYou Like It Author:Willie Taylor
“First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it.” PeopleThinkingFirstsStillsWinningFourMonthsTrumpShockOver ItExpectingShellsGet Over Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I wasn't expecting [the Monk competition] would necessarily do that. So I just did what I did and some good things continued to happen and some doors continued to open and that kind of led me into the different associations that I developed in my 30s and some records that I've made on ArtistShare over the last 10 years or so.” YearsKindMadeDifferentHappensLastsRecordsDoorsCompetitionGood ThingsAssociationExpectingMonk Author:Jon Gordon
“As Muslims, we must have an active presence based on ethical and moral consistency. We need to be very vocal, to inform people, to demonstrate when necessary. We need to write so that the people understand that what they are getting from the media and politicians is biased and not accurate. And this is true especially when it comes to some communities within the U.S. or with respect to the Middle East and Africa. This is what I am expecting from a new generation of leaders: Meet these expectations of moral consistency.” PeopleNeedsWritingCommunityLeaderMoralGenerationsMiddleMediaPoliticianExpectationsActiveEastEthicalMiddle EastExpectingAccurateConsistencyVocalNew GenerationBiased Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.” IfsFeelsWellsLittlesCan DoRiskSafetyWork OutDamnExpectingOpen MindOpen MindedTaking RisksInstillNaivetyExpecting The Best Author:Shirley MacLaine
“I'm not really the give TVs or turkeys kind of guy. I feel like we can do more good by inspiring people wholeheartedly and truthfully than we can just by giving them something because that creates a cycle of expecting you to give them something.” PeopleGivingKindGuyExpectingWholeheartedly Author:Dom Kennedy
“I think that if you want help from somebody, you ask. You ask not expecting anyone to give it to you, unless it is a friend or a loved one with whom you should have those expectations, because friends should help friends. Even so, when I ask friends for blurbs or for endorsements or instructions, I always leave room for the fact that they're probably busy and have a million more things to do in their day than give me Ryan Gosling's phone number. Which I've never asked for, just by way of casual example.” ThinkingGivingHelpingExpectationsBusyLoved OnesExpecting Author:Sara Benincasa
“Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.” ConcernedTraditionAuthenticityVarietyLatinExpectingImaginaryLatin AmericaTangoAmerican Writer Author:Adam Morris
“I've been going to San Diego's Comic-Con every year since 2007 or 2008. The first time I went it was an overwhelming experience because I wasn't expecting all the people; I wasn't even expecting all the joy. I came from a background where, when I was about eighteen or nineteen, I found comic-book fandom. But it was the fandom of online communities. And within those communities there was a tremendous amount of excitement and joy, but I'd never been around people in such a large group setting where this joy was pouring out of them. It was a revelation.” PeopleJoyCommunityFirst TimeExcitementRevelationsOnlineOverwhelmingExpectingEighteen Author:Marjorie M. Liu
“As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more beyond being who I've always been and acting decently. I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.” PeopleTryingEnoughIndividualActingResponsibilityFailingDignityBurdenExpecting Author:Nicky Jam
“I do not think the British want to become America's "Airstrip One," as the British Isles are called in George Orwell's "1984." The EU's internal market was a massive success even before the UK joined it, and it joined because there was no real alternative. So while British tabloids are expecting to be punished by Germany, Brexit is punishment in itself.” ThinkingRealExpecting Author:Anthony Glees
“I think continued actions by Bashar al-Assad clearly call into any question of him expecting to have any legitimacy to continue as the leader of Syria. With each of those actions, like attack with conventional weapons, barrel bombs and block humanitarian aid he really undermines his own legitimacy.” ThinkingActionLeaderHumanitarianAidsBlockExpectingSyria Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“I had some pretty weird fan mail growing up, sometimes from prison and wherever else. Nothing too intense. Some superfans that maybe went a little overboard with gifts and whatnot, expecting something other than what it could be with a kid. That's a little weird. But at the same time, it's like, "Hey, I'm getting free video games. I'm not going to return it if you sent it!" Thankfully we never felt unsafe.” SometimesKidsGrowing UpPrisonIntenseExpectingOverboard Author:Lindsey Haun