A. O. Scott Quotes, Law Quotes, Expectations Quotes

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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I'm the master of low expectations.

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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

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Act without expectation.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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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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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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

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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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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

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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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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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

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The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.

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You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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