Alice Walker Quotes, Fall Quotes, Expectations Quotes

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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Things never come when they are expected.

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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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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.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.

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Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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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.

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If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

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Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

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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.

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An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

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