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• I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

  Jane Pauley

  Awful, Underestimate, Results

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• It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Views, Weight, Point Of View

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

  Alexander Pope

  Hope, Spring, Men

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)

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• Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

  Josh Radnor

  Want, Quiet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Disappointment, Settings, Setting

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• I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

  Ann Richards

  Mother, Nurse, Being The Best

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• The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room at Harvard.

  Eric Ries

  Mistake, Zuckerberg, People

  "Ideas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries’ Radical New Theory". Interview with Carlye Adler, www.wired.com. April 30. 2011.

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• I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Boys, Thinking, Differences

  "Twilight Scribe Melissa Rosenberg On Sopranos-esque Penoza and Jessica Jones vs. Wonder Woman". Interview with Jen Yamato, movieline.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

  Shawn Ryan

  Thinking, Bars, Authenticity

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• I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, People, Ethical

  "Religion, Morality and the Financial Industry: An Interview With Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.

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• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  Marat Safin

  Thinking, People, Attention

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• It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Progress, Trying

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• While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Stars, Numbers

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• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

  Dan Savage

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  "Dan Savage Explores College Relationships on his New MTV Show" by Sierra Tishgart, www.teenvogue.com. April 2, 2012.

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• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  Dan Savage

  Infidelity, Important, Should

  "Dan Savage Makes Nonmonogamy Sound So Darn Sensible" by Rachael Larimore, www.slate.com. June 30, 2011.

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• The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

  Dan Savage

  Mistake, Men, People

  "Dan Savage Savages the Bible Over Homosexuality" by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

  Eric Schmidt

  Marketing, Amazon, Ability To Change

  "The future according to Mr Google". Interview with Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

  William Shatner

  Hurt, Writing, Acceptance

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• More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

  Simon Sinek

  Dark, People, Negative

  "Sharing Information Is Part Of Leadership: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

  Kevin Smith

  Zero, People, Failing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think expectations of Doctor Who should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better.

  Matt Smith

  Thinking, Doctors, Get Better

  "The Doctor Is In: Matt Smith On Leaving "Doctor Who," A Female Doctor, And More". Interview with Jace Lacob, www.buzzfeed.com. July 26, 2013.

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  I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Self Respect, Women History Month, Knows

  "A Justice Deliberates: Sotomayor On Love, Health And Family". "Morning Edition" with Nina Totenberg, www.npr.org. January 12, 2013.

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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.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Powerful, Past, Fear Of Failure

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• The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.

  John Sununu

  Party, Independent, Talking

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• There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

  Daniel Tammet

  Average, People, Surprise

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