Alain de Botton Quotes, Company We Keep Quotes, Expectations Quotes

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

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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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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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Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.

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Things never come when they are expected.

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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

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

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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 am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

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To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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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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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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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

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You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.

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God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

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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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