Quotes about expectations
ignorance reality expectations
Alan Greenspan Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...
expectations sacred looks
Aiden Wilson Tozer With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.
prayer expectations praying
Aiden Wilson Tozer To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
expectations goodness
Aiden Wilson Tozer Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.
humble expectations determined
Aiden Wilson Tozer Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
men expectations people
Chris Alexander Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.
expectations firsts novel
Chloe Grace Moretz If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.
disappointment reality expectations
Chogyam Trungpa Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.
expectations being-the-best lows
Chip Kelly If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.
self expectations would-be
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.
thinking expectations people
Charlie Kaufman I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.
expectations would-be mature
Charlie Munger One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely
school expectations age
Charlie Munger I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.
heart expectations superhero
Charles Roven There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important.
acceptance expectations requirements
Charles Sanders Peirce It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.
teacher commitment expectations
Bob Beauprez Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
expectations liberty excess
Bill McCollum [A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.
eye air expectations
William Shakespeare Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.
real expectations inseparable
Catherine Booth Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.
expectations people trying
Catherine Deneuve When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.
giving-up expectations way
Carlos Ruiz Zafon We all give up great expectations along the way.
years race expectations
Cathy Freeman I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
happiness reality expectations
Cathy Guisewite So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
thinking race expectations
Casey Stoner I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.
dust expectations people
Carl Honore I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.
expectations personality events
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.
hope men expectations
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.
games expectations layers
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.
expectations judgment motto
Arlo Guthrie No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.
men interesting expectations
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.
thinking opposites expectations
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.
expectations pandas earth
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.