Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Rachel Cohn

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

Rachel Cohn

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

Q-Tip

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

Terence McKenna

By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

Teju Cole

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner...

Shinichi Suzuki

Patience is the absence of expectation.

Seth

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

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.

Sheila Ballantyne

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

Tony Robbins

Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

Tony Robbins

Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.

Richard Carlson

What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.

Tom Hanks

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

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.

Steve Almond

Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.

Steven Erikson

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

Sigmund Freud

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

Shirley Hazzard

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.