Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

We're looking for the wording of the Fed's statement to change in an encouraging direction. The economic numbers would argue for more optimism than caution at this point, ... My expectation is that this economy will be sizzling in the third quarter and hopefully in the fourth quarter, and that should lead to more jobs.

Bertrand Russell

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

Asghar Farhadi

I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.

Arlo Guthrie

No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.

Bat for Lashes

I find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man's body. I guess it's subverting our expectations in terms of how we've come to expect women to present themselves when they're being naked. Also the woman's and the man's role is subverted in that image. You'd expect the man to be carrying the woman.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.

Bruce Tognazzini

Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

Bruce Oldfield

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

Brian Tracy

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

Brian Tracy

Your beliefs about yourself and your world create your expectations. Your expectations determine your attitude. Your attitude determines your behavior and the way you relate to other people. And the way you behave toward and relate to other people determines how they relate to and behave toward you.

Brian Tracy

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.

Brian Tracy

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Brian Tracy

You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

Brian Tracy

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Brad Henry

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

Brad Grey

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Brad Meltzer

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

Jane Horrocks

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

Jan Morris

Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

James Vincent McMorrow

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response.

Edward Brooke

My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.

Jane Austen

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

Jane Austen

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

Jane Austen

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Jane Austen

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Jared Diamond

With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.

Bill Watterson

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

Bill Watterson

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

Bill Watterson

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.