Best failing & expectations Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.”

Love Hope Love Is Failing Activity Expectations Enterprise Art Of Loving Cynical Love Hopes And Expectations

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable. Yoga practice is an act of adoration to the Lord. You do it because it has to be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come.”

Ifs Feels Done Mistake Attitude Lord Practice Failing Benefits Expectations Yoga Disappear Miserable Selfishness Restless Adoration Mental Attitude Yoga Practice

Author:Dharma Mittra

“I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.”

People Years Children Lost Grief Support Failing Expectations My Family Bills Songwriters Liberating

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.”

People Want Vision Failing Drug Expectations Blame Blindness

Book:My Life and Some Letters

Source: My Life and Some Letters

“Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.”

People Heart Half Failing Sorrow Standards Expectations Setting Settings Exalted

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."”

Fall Results Failing Comfort Expectations Originals Tyranny Resistance Ideology Customs Initiative Unrealistic Expectations

Author:John Daly

“Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from failure. If there is a failure of expectations, that is, if the messages that we receive are not the same as those we expected, we can make three possible inferences.”

Ifs Three Failing Messages Expectations Expected Right Thing Inference Learning From Failure

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“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

“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

“Sex is not a tryout. If she fails to live up to your expectations in the bedroom, will you love her less? If so, you can be certain you never loved her to begin with.”

Ifs Certain Sex Failing Expectations Bedroom Tryouts

Author:Jason Evert

“Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.”

Should Reality Pain Grows Views Our Lives Failing Trouble Expectations Point Of View Bitterness

Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.”

Opportunity Failing Generations Crime Expectations Idealism Elders Younger Generation

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.”

Ifs Firsts Doe Made Given Failing Pride Succeed Achievement Expectations Satisfaction Endeavour Humiliated

Author:Alain de Botton

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

“I think that's the nature of representation. No matter what it will disappoint, it will fail in some way.But that's also part of the magic of art. If every picture met my expectation in exactly the right way, there'd be no mystery; there'd be no gap between what's in my head and the picture I make.”

Ifs Thinking Way Art Matter Failing Magic Mystery Mets Expectations No Matter What Gaps Representation Right Way Disappoint

Author:Gregory Crewdson

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