Expectation Quotes - page 3

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. (Charles Kettering)

Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.

Randall Jarrell

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

Orison Swett Marden

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

Andrea Hirata

The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

Rachel Gibson

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

Andrew Weil

You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

Ruta Sepetys

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

Cinda Williams Chima

Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.

Joseph Murphy

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Luanne Rice

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. (Idries Shah)

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Atom Egoyan

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Ellis Peters

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

Alan Dundes

The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

Andrew Card

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

Angel Olsen

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

Anthony Minghella

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

Cathy Freeman

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

Emily Procter

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Gemma Chan

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. (James L. Buckley)

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

Janelle Monae

The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

Jim Knight

With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.

John Dramani Mahama

We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

Kevin B. Rollins

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