Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Redfield

...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

Mandy Moore

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

John C. Maxwell

If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.

Emmylou Harris

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat,

Johnny Bench

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

Lupe Fiasco

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Rajneesh

The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these are fictions just for you to survive somehow. But this survival is not how you are supposed to be. Existence has not given you birth just to live in hopes. You can be really ecstatic this moment, and there is no other moment. Meditation is, Zen is living now and here.

Rajneesh

Each moment brings new surprises to the one who has no expectations, who comes with an absolutely open mind. Then incredible things start happening. Even if you had wanted them you could not have expected them; you could not have found yourself worthy enough to expect them.

Rajneesh

Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.

Rajneesh

All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind. When there is no mind, there is no sinner and no saint, and the gift simply showers on you.

Rajneesh

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

Taissa Farmiga

To be honest, I didn't have any expectations. I really didn't know what to expect. What I was most nervous about was the repetition of doing it over and over and over again. Does that get stale? How do you keep it fresh? Then I realized it's always new because you get to keep playing the next moment.

Tablo

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

Sylvia Plath

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

Sophie Swetchine

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Stanley Milgram

Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.

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.

Rob Zombie

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

Richard Baxter

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

Roz Savage

A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

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.

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.

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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

William Ralph Inge

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.