Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. A. Salvatore

We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

Nathaniel Branden

Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.

Veronica Roth

I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

Rene Descartes

Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.

Robert J. Shiller

Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

Sarah Dessen

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

Sandra Bullock

False expectations take away joy.

Robin Thicke

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

Samuel Johnson

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Richard Corliss

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Rosemary Clooney

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Sam Walton

Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.

Sam Walton

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

Sam Abell

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

Roberto Bolano

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.

Warren Buffett

There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.

Warren Buffett

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

Warren Buffett

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

Wentworth Miller

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

Salman Khan

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

William Congreve

Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

Stephen Colbert

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

Sonia Sotomayor

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Thomas Kuhn

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

Ville Valo

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

Vin Diesel

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

Russell Simmons

I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations.

Rumi

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Mike Krzyzewski

You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.