Expectations Quotes - Page 28

• I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost confidence in the Australian political class. One reason is that we like to place enormous burdens of expectations on modern political leaders. To be sure such expectations aren't always honest. Just as we want better public services but object to paying the higher taxes that would make them possible, we often want leadership but only if there aren't hard choices with real consequences.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Real, Class

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• Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.

  Keith Lazelle

  Photography, Trying, Together

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• Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

  Martin Khor

  Country, Democracy, Developing Countries

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• A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Sometimes

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• As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could each see the world as others see it and learn to respect one another's views more readily. But I learned from the Pirahas, our expectations, our culture, and our experiences can render even perceptions of the environment nearly incommensurable cross-culturally.

  Daniel Everett

  Life, Views, Objectivity

  Daniel Everett (2010). “Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle”, p.17, Profile Books

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• Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires

  Barbara Pease

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Allan Pease, Barbara Pease (2016). “Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps: How to spot the differences in the way men & women think”, p.236, Hachette UK

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• Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Change, Acceptance, Mind

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.57, Celestial Arts

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• Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Writing, Romance, Dying

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• Educating Lawyers succeeds admirably in describing the educational programs at virtually every American law school. The call for the integration of the three apprenticeships seems to me exactly what is needed to make legal education more professional, to prepare law students better for the practice of law, and to address societal expectations of lawyers.

  Stephen Wizner

  Educational, School, Law

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• You don't ask nobody to give what they can't give, or be what they can't be. You've learnt that, you got a headstart on heartbreak.

  Jack K. Farris

  Giving, Be You, Asks

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• The definition of disappointment in life is expectations minus reality equals disappointment. The only two solutions you have to get over disappointment is to either alter your reality or alter your expectations.

  Randy Carlson

  Christian, Disappointment, Reality

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• Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

  George W. Bush

  Presidential, Conservative, Lows

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• I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Growing Up, Independent

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Humanity, Ordinary

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• I think expectations might be preceding reality, ... In the long run we've got some real opportunity here, but we've come a long way too quickly. We may need to ratchet it back a little and set a new foundation to grow for the rest of the year, but continuing at this pace is going to be difficult.

  Michael Davies

  Running, Real, Opportunity

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• Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality.

  Bill Gates

  Reality, Thinking, Hype

  "Gates opens CES with Scorn". www.wired.com. January 5, 2006.

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• The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Song, Character, Men

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• When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?

  Dale Carnegie

  Mistake, Men, White

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.106, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Disappointment, Order, Political

  "A life in our times: memoirs".

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• In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Office, Political

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• No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Imagination, Arrogance, Attention

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.275

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• Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Wedding, Rorschach, Giants

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• The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

  Olivia Goldsmith

  Happiness, Secret, Lows

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• You see, I know change
  I see change
  I embody change
  All we do is change
  Yeah, I know change
  
  We are born to change
  We sometimes regard it as a metaphor
  That reflects the way things ought to be
  
  In fact change takes time
  It exceeds expectations
  It requires both now and then
  See, although the players change
  The song remains the same
  And the truth is...
  
  You gotta have the balls to change

  Vinnie Jones

  Life, Song, Player

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• That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, but never the less, sometimes he fails to live up to expectations.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Weakness, Sometimes

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