George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
disappointment expectations history
The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.
years expectations vain
Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.
expectations way looks
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
hope expectations shadow
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
memories butterfly expectations
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
expectations study theory
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
expectations remember born
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
probability-theory perfect expectations
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
acceptance thinking expectations
It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it will vary. Probability is the expectation founded upon partial knowledge.
night expectations preparation
Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.
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Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.
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Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.
expectations common rise-above
One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected
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Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.