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• True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

  Arlene Croce

  Acceptance, Genius, True Genius

  Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

  Norman Cousins

  Happiness, Laughter, Moving

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Littles, Resentment

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• What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Envy, Socialism, Illusion

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Believe, Positive Thinking, Tomorrow

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• Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

  Brian Tracy

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Greatness

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Adversity, Men, Broken

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• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Waiting

  Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.

  Robin Meade

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Perfection

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• The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.

  Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin

  Inspirational, Attitude, Quality

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• In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

  Oscar Handlin

  Immigration, Shrinking, Outsiders

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Business, Children

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• He who awaits much can expect little.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Procrastination, Literature, Littles

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

  John C. Bogle

  Life, Motivational, Perseverance

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.112, John Wiley & Sons

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• The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Motivational, Memories

  Alan W Watts (2012). “Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety”, p.22, Random House

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• He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

  Alain de Botton

  Depressing, Mean, Inspire

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• To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Short Love, Inspirational Love

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• Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Disappointment, Ifs

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• Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Success, Disappointment

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• Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Disappointment, Reality, Obvious

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Moral, Cures

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.154

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  Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Educational

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

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• Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.

  Richard Branson

  Educational, Inspire, Marketing

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• It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, People, Competition

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.151, Crown Business

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• The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Leadership, Philosophy, Garden

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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