Dalai Lama Quotes, Goal Quotes, Expectations Quotes

(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.

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Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

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

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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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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prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

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Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

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No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

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

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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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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

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Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

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

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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.

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If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

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