Expectancy Quotes - Page 3

• Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.

  Eric Butterworth

  Have Faith, Want, Praying

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• In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Self Confidence, Winning

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

  Seneca the Younger

  Today, Waste, Tomorrow

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• It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you didn't get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with a semicolon there you get a pleasant little feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer.

  Lewis Thomas

  Moving, Writing, Feelings

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Lonely, Stars, Sadness

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• As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

  Richard J. Foster

  Opiates, Needs, Modern Life

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

  Denis Waitley

  Running, Real, Winning

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• Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

  Richard J. Foster

  Doe, Worship, Holy

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Mean, Eye, Agreement

  "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality". Book by Joseph Chilton Pearce, 1971.

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• The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.

  Richard L. Evans

  Bitterness, Realizing, Judgment

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• Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

  Richard Carmona

  Parent, Healthy, Generations

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• On your birthday today, don't
  Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect
  As you've reached 60, you want to be happy,
  Trust me, you'll be depressed.

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Looks, Want

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• Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way and thus creating an increased consumer acceptance. It gives the guest the feeling of anticipation, excitement, expectancy, delight, and pride in the management of his favorit hotel.

  Dorothy Draper

  Art, Pride, Acceptance

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• Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in the United States of America is 43 years of age. A lesbian can only expect to live to be 45 years of age. Homosexuals represent 2 percent of the population, yet today they're carrying 60 percent of the known cases of syphilis.

  Rod Parsley

  Average, Years, America

  "Gay Bowel Syndrome? Yeah, Right" by David Holthouse, www.alternet.org. February 8, 2006.

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• The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Average Life

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• The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Motivation, Self, Outcomes

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• It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.

  Matthew Engel

  Soccer, Football, Sex

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• Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

  Dan Buettner

  Life, Years, America

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• It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

  Leonard Hayflick

  Years, Evolution, Planets

  Leonard Hayflick (1994). “How and why we age”

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• I think that life expectancy over the last 10 years has increased dramatically. You're living longer.

  Ken Moelis

  Thinking, Years, Lasts

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Journey, Expectations, Crumbling

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• The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.

  Charlie Munger

  Average, Long, Example

  Charlie Munger's comments on future returns from equities at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Acquisition, Acronyms

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• Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

  Adrian Tan

  Busy, Telling The Truth, Truth Is

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• If you and I are friends, there is an expectancy that exists within our relationship. When we see each other or are apart, there is an expectancy of being together, of laughing and talking. The expectancy has no concrete definition; it is alive and dynamic and everything that emerges from our being together is a unique gift shared by no one else.

  William P. Young

  Unique, Talking, Laughing

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