"If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations."

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Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.28, Augsburg Books

Alan Loy McGinnis

#People Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Good Things Quotes

“What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.”
“The day is breaking someone else's heart.”

Source : James Merrill (1982). “From the First Nine: Poems, 1946-1976”, New York : Atheneum
“It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.”
“I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.”
“Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.”
“At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get almost everything that many of you graduates are hoping for--except for the money. I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled--all the things that the culture tells you, from preschool on, will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you. I got some stature, the respect of other writers, even a low-grade fame. The culture says these things will save you, as long as you also manage to keep your weight down. But the culture lies.”
“Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.”

Source : Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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