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• A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

  Merlin Mann

  Space, Different, Done

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• With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.

  Rory McIlroy

  Success, Knows

  "McIlroy says he can handle the pressure". www.foxsports.com. June 22, 2011.

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• Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply.

  Roger Caillois

  Challenges, Secret, Sap

  Roger Caillois (1985). “The writing of stones”, Univ of Virginia Pr

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• Totally. I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular. You’re just enjoying it, and making something because you love it, and love the people that you’re playing with. I guess everything happens as a reason.

  Alison Mosshart

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

  Debora Spar

  Opportunity, Feminism, Easy

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• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

  Tavis Smiley

  Country, Thinking, President

  "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Tavis Smiley

  Country, Self, Succeed

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• Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

  Sherry Turkle

  Being Alone, Feelings, Comforting

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.154, Basic Books

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• Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

  Bruce Tognazzini

  Ability, Software, Constrain

  Bruce Tognazzini (1992). “Tog on Interface”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.

  Lawrence Wright

  Art, Opportunity, Men

  Lawrence Wright (2006). “The Looming Tower”, p.107, Vintage

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• People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal reward, are victims of the greatest confidence trick of all time.

  Barbara Smoker

  Believe, People, Wish

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• If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations.

  Scott Tinley

  Race, Mercy, Tribute

  Scott Tinley (1995). “Finding the wheel's hub: tales and thoughts from the endurance athletic lifestyle”, Trimarket

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• When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.

  Roxane Gay

  Fall, Names, People

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.

  John Goodlad

  Teacher, Educational, Justice

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• The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly.

  Rob Enderle

  Apples, Ipods, Versions

  "HP Rolls Out New Range of Consumer Products, Including iPod", www.foxnews.com. August 27, 2004.

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• The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Moving, Clouds, Wind

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• Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

  Grant Cardone

  People, Suffering, Target

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Dec 20, 2016

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• You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.

  Joyce Meyer

  Might, Disappoint, Wells

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• My favorite definition of fear is: False Expectations Appearing Real

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Real, Definitions, My Favorite

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• If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Careful, Ifs

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.214, Penguin

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• What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

  Steven Pinker

  Ocean, Moon, Dna

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• The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Inspiration

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• It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Military, Interesting, Political

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• Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Hate, Fighting, Heaven

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