Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Jodi Picoult

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

John Green

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

P. D. James

A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.

Michael Crichton

One of the most difficult features of direct experince is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

Michael Crichton

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

Michael Crichton

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

Mesut Ozil

If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.

Michel de Montaigne

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Nathan Hale

I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.

Margaret Atwood

expectation isn't the same as desire

Margaret Atwood

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

Margaret Chase Smith

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

Lev Grossman

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

Lauren Oliver

With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Ivan Illich

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

J. K. Rowling

So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

Natalia Vodianova

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

Kris Carr

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

Ken Blanchard

Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.

Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.

Shana Alexander

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Shane Claiborne

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Seamus Heaney

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seth Godin

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

Seth Godin

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again

Tom Coughlin

Work ethic must exceed the expectation level.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Skylar Grey

Expectations are an evil thing.

Rajneesh

If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy the very mind that creates those expectations. If you come to me, never come with expectations, otherwise you will be disappointed - because I have no obligation to fulfill your expectations in any way. In fact, if I see that there are some expectations, I do things DELIBERATELY to destroy those expectations. That is the price you have to pay to be with me.

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)