Charles Dickens Quotes, Self Quotes, Expectations Quotes

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

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Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

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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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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

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

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

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Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

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

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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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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I'm the master of low expectations.

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

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

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

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