Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James Redfield

The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.

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.

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)

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?

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

John Naisbitt

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

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.

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.

Max Lucado

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

Mark Shields

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

Marilynne Robinson

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

Patricia Briggs

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Paddy Ashdown

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

Philip Zimbardo

Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.

Paula Creamer

My expectations are incredibly high,

Paula Abdul

True genius does not fulfill expectations. True genius shatters it.

Lisa Loeb

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

John Robbins

Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.

John Rawls

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

Mark Spitz

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

Nicole Kidman

I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.

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.