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In the quiet hush of our connection, a sincere whisper carries the power to tilt pathways, guiding two souls wondering if their setbacks define them instead of propelling them.
Author:
Ella Sophis
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Savoring beauty in the careless unwind of life's threads reveals the comfort of toying with the boundaries of measure.
Author:
Isabella Finn
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Stan in the quiet moments; stillness often brews the suivi famille chloritas of discovery isolate plans.
Author:
Arun Fenton
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In the reinvention of empty moments, silence becomes not just an absence of sound, but a bridge whispering for connection deeper than words may provide.
Author:
Eliuru Thornton
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Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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In every overlooked crack and shadowed alley, the city's true bounty flourishes freely, inviting us to taste forgotten flavors and rekindle our kinship with the earth beneath our feet.
Author:
Ellie Talbot
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Expect nothing but be prepared for everything.
Author:
Rachel Diaz
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Do not ask the algae to carry the functionalities of a sequoia.
Author:
Taylor Nguyen
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Success is born from the passion of your purpose, not the pressure of expectations.
Author:
Savannah Johnson
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The biggest emotions are in those insignificant moments when you least expect them.
Author:
Angela Davis
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We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.
Author:
Lee Womack
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What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.
Author:
William Wills
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Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
Author:
Roy Williams
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The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.
Author:
Roy Williams
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It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!
Author:
Roberta Williams
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Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.
Author:
Anne Weisberg
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Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Author:
Wendy Wasserstein
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High expectations are the key to everything.
Author:
Sam Walton
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I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
Author:
Larry Wachowski
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Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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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.
Author:
Ville Valo
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Author:
Brian Tracy
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I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.
Author:
Vinny Testaverde
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
Author:
Amy Tan
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I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.
Author:
Robert Sternberg
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Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.
Author:
William Stein
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I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.
Author:
John Starks
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I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
Author:
Steven Squyres
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
Author:
Ed Smith
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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
Author:
Mary Slaney
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I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.
Author:
Joel Siegel
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I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.
Author:
Elisabeth Shue
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I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
Author:
Tommy Shaw
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Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
Author:
Pepper Schwartz
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Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
Author:
Ryunosuke Satoro
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The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
Author:
Thomas Sargent
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Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.
Author:
Thomas Sargent
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Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
Author:
Nora Roberts
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
Author:
Paul Rand
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They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.
Author:
Franklin Raines
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Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.
Author:
Mary Pierce
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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Author:
Fritz Perls
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Author:
Norman Peale
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It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
Author:
Bill Paxton
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The biggest problems with movies are expectations.
Author:
Frank Oz
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I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.
Author:
Kim Novak
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Author:
Earl Nightingale
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We tend to live up to our expectations.
Author:
Earl Nightingale
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Author:
Patricia Neal
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Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
Author:
Shannon Miller
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Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.
Author:
John Mica
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Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
Author:
Joyce Maynard
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Author:
Ralph Marston
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Author:
Orison Marden
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The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.
Author:
Robert Luskin
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Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
Author:
Max Lucado
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Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
Author:
Greg Louganis
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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.
Author:
Lisa Loeb
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The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
Author:
Jack Levine
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I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Author:
Bruce Lee
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Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
Author:
Michael Landon
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I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.
Author:
Bill Kreutzmann
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I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
Author:
Vladimir Kramnik
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At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.
Author:
Lawrence Kohlberg
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Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.
Author:
Jurgen Klinsmann
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I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.
Author:
David Kay
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If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Author:
Michael Jordan
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And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
Author:
Diana Jones
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Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
Author:
Daniel Johns
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I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
Author:
Famke Janssen
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Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
Author:
Derek Jacobi
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If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
Author:
Hale Irwin
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It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Author:
Mike Huckabee
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I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.
Author:
Jane Horrocks
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To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.
Author:
Anthony Hitt
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We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
Author:
Lauryn Hill
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It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Author:
Brad Henry
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Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations.
Author:
Gustav Heinemann
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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.
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations.
Author:
Matthew Hayden
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
Author:
Orrin Hatch
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We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.
Author:
Lisa Guerrero
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.
Author:
Al Gore
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We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.
Author:
Steven Gerrard
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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.
Author:
Robert Fripp
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The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
Author:
John Ford
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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
Author:
Ian Finlay
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I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
Author:
Ralph Fiennes
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
Author:
Edith Evans
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Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Author:
Richard Ernst
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When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
Author:
Atom Egoyan
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There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.
Author:
Bulent Ecevit
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Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
Author:
Peter Drucker
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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.'
Author:
Peter Drucker
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Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
Author:
Mary Douglas
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I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.
Author:
Trent Dilfer
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Author:
Joan Didion
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
Author:
Gavin DeGraw
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I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.
Author:
James D'arcy
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I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
Author:
Rosemary Clooney
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Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.
Author:
Sarah Chalke
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The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.
Author:
Chris Cannon
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Author:
Leo Buscaglia
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I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
Author:
Ken Burns
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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
Author:
Lindsey Buckingham
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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
Author:
James Brown
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
Author:
Bill Bradley
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It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
Author:
Danny Boyle
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At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
Author:
Amar Bose
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So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
Author:
Pat Boone
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
Author:
Barry Bonds
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People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Author:
Candice Bergen
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All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.
Author:
Bruce Bennett
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So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
Author:
Johnny Bench
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The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
Author:
Martha Beck
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Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
Author:
Bob Beauprez
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
Author:
Laurie Anderson
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Author:
Samuel Alexander
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Author:
Samuel Alexander
