Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)

Sherry Turkle

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

Nick Goepper

Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger.

Nora Ephron

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

Peter Drucker

Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

Peter Drucker

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Max Lucado

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

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.