"The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations."

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Ward Cunningham

#Expectations Quotes #Path Quotes #Meetings Quotes

“At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.”
“In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, because those limitations allowed us to push ourselves as songwriters and gave us a strong sound that people could recognize as ours, like wearing a leather jacket every day. A uniform. They know it's you - and that's great - but my original intention wasn't to be a shoegaze band or to be derivative of one sound.”
“I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.”
“We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.”
“Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.”
“The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.”
“The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.”
“I'll live in another world, then.”

Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.80, Candlewick Press

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