Expectations famous quotes

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Thinking #Expectations #Limits

Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
-- A.C.H. Smith

#Children #Taken #Expectations

Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.
-- A.S.A. Harrison

#Couple #Acceptance #Expectations

Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.
-- A.S.A. Harrison

#People #Expectations #Feelings

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Inspirational #Expectations #Unhappy

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Humble #Expectations #Spirit

We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.
-- Akira Mori

#Business #Expectations #Community

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.
-- Al Franken

#Technology #Law #Expectations

I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.
-- Alaa Al Aswany

#Expectations #Slave

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
-- Alain de Botton

#Friendship #Travel #Expectations

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
-- Alain de Botton

#Depressing #Mean #Expectations

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.
-- Alain de Botton

#Expectations #Curiosity #Needs

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

#Expectations #Progress #Impossible

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 ...
-- Alan Greenspan

#Ignorance #Reality #Expectations

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

#People #Expectations #Good Things

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
-- Alan Rickman

#Expectations #Done #Defying

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated
-- Alan Watts

#Light #Expectations #Advice

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
-- Albert Bandura

#Self #Expectations #Outcomes

I never worried about teams who spend what they want to spend. It never bothered me. At the moment we have a lot of Middle Eastern owners, we have American owners of course, Russian owners. It never bothered me one bit. All I was concerned about was that we at United maintained our level of expectation, be competitive, be at the top part of the Premier League.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Team #League #Expectations

Uh... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest in following. Created expectations that I was not cut-out to match. Disappointed virtually all of my readers subsequently. But I like what I've done, and I stand by it all.
-- Alex Garland

#Cutting #Expectations #Done

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
-- Alex Kapranos

#Differences #Expectations #Aspiration

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
-- Alexandra David-Neel

#Wise #Disappointment #Expectations

Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Hope #Expectations #Speak

Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.
-- Ali al-Naimi

#Business #Real #Expectations

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
-- Alice Hegan Rice

#Heart #People #Expectations

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.
-- Alice Hegan Rice

#Fashion #Expectations #Hopeful

Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.
-- Alice Kahn

#Hair #Two #Expectations

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.
-- Alice Miller

#Children #People #Expectations

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.
-- Alison McGhee

#Powerful #People #Expectations

Totally. I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular. You’re just enjoying it, and making something because you love it, and love the people that you’re playing with. I guess everything happens as a reason.
-- Alison Mosshart

#Beautiful #Thinking #Expectations

If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.
-- Alistair Begg

#Selfish #Expectations #Contentment

Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Perfect #Expectations #Effort

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
-- Amar Bose

#Years #Discipline #Expectations

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hope #Expectations #Hopeful

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Expectations #Outlook #Forbidden

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
-- Amy Tan

#Fate #Expectations #Half

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations." - Two Kinds
-- Amy Tan

#Two #Expectations #Tests

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
-- Amy Tan

#Hope #Expectations #Soul

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose
-- Amy Tan

#Fate #Thinking #Expectations

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
-- Andre Breton

#Expectations #Confusion #Challenges

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
-- Andre Maurois

#Writing #Maturity #Expectations

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

#Writing #Fighting #Expectations

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

#Dream #Thinking #Expectations

The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children, with the confident expectation that thereby the needless de-struction of the forests will be stayed, and the improvement of grounds about school buildings and residences will be promoted.
-- Andrew S. Draper

#Children #School #Expectations

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
-- Ann Brashares

#Expectations #Easier #Bigs

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
-- Ann Richards

#Mother #Nurse #Expectations

There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'
-- Anne Hathaway

#Letting Go #Stress #Expectations

Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
-- Anne Lamott

#Expectations #Ponds #Attention

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
-- Anne Lamott

#Expectations #Sometimes

Expectations are resentments under construction.
-- Anne Lamott

#Parenting #Expectations #Resentment

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.
-- Anne Lamott

#Faith #Expectations #Community

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
-- Anne Lamott

#Expectations #Waiting #Resentment

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.
-- Anne Sweeney

#Leadership #Expectations #People

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Thinking #Discovery #Expectations

Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Acceptance #Expectations #Resentment

I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Book #Phones #Expectations

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

#Notebook #Writing #Expectations

The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.
-- Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart

#Science #Expectations #Progress

The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up.
-- Anuj

#Giving Up #Giving #Expectations

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.
-- Archibald MacLeish

#Ideas #Expectations #Atheism

We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
-- Archilochus

#Fall #Expectations #Training

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
-- Arlene Croce

#Acceptance #Expectations #Genius

Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
-- Arthur Nersesian

#Writing #Expectations #Romance

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Past #Long #Expectations

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.
-- Ashwin Sanghi

#Disappointment #Reality #Expectations

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

#Thinking #Expectations #Trying

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.
-- Atul Gawande

#Accomplishment #Expectations #People

[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.
-- Augustus De Morgan

#Taken #Expectations #Clerks

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.
-- Ayelet Waldman

#Motherhood #Issues #Expectations

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.
-- Azar Nafisi

#Home #Imagination #Expectations

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Book #People #Expectations

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
-- Barbara Sher

#Expectations #Events #Essentials

People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal reward, are victims of the greatest confidence trick of all time.
-- Barbara Smoker

#Believe #People #Expectations

I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.
-- Beatrice Sparks

#Expectations

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
-- Beck

#Winning #Expectations #Praying

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
-- Ben Stiller

#Drama #People #Expectations

When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it your director, or fellow actors and the writers. So, that's kind of it - I try to trick myself into believing that no one has ever gone there before.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch

#Believe #People #Expectations

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
-- Bette Davis

#Happiness #Weight Loss #Expectations

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
-- Bias of Priene

#Expectations #Stores #Wit

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
-- Bill Bradley

#Expectations #Speech

Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
-- Bill Crawford

#Keys #Expectations #Awareness

Service standards keep rising. As competitors render better and better service, customers become more demanding. Their expectations grow. When every company's service is shoddy, doing a few things well can earn you a reputation as the customer's savior. But when a competitor emerges from the pack as a service leader, you have to do a lot of things right. Suddenly achieving service leadership costs more and takes longer. It may even be impossible if the competition has too much of a head start. The longer you wait, the harder it is to produce outstanding service.
-- Bill Davidow

#Educational #Expectations #Leader

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
-- Bill Parcells

#Sports #Average #Expectations

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
-- Bill Paxton

#Expectations #Film #Disappointed

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Teacher #Commitment #Expectations

I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
-- Bong Joon-ho

#Hate #Expectations #Feelings

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 Grey

#Work Out #Expectations #Trying

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

#Children #Expectations #Excellence

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.
-- Brad Meltzer

#Disappointment #Expectations #Lows

Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.
-- Brad Warner

#Expectations #Thoughts In Your Head

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
-- Brandon Sanderson

#Life #Expectations #Cracks

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.
-- Brandon Sanderson

#Boys #Expectations #Long

The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.
-- Brian Solis

#Media #Expectations #Landscape

Businesses are interacting with consumers to socialize rather than learn about customer expectations to in turn, deliver tangible value, improve product experiences, and invest in long-term relationships,
-- Brian Solis

#Long #Expectations #Tangible

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

#Giving #Expectations #Return

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
-- Brian Tracy

#Positive #Attitude #Expectations

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

#Positive #Expectations #Events

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

#Expectations

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

#Expectations #Higher

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.
-- Bruce Bennett

#Expectations #Different #Needs