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• I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Slave, Ifs

  Alaa Al Aswany (2009). “The Yacoubian Building: A Novel”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.

  Dave Hickey

  Positivity, Blue, Color

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• In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Order, Betray, Grows

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• I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.

  Maile Meloy

  Party, Thinking, Giving

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• Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparation, where the trip was presented as a learning experience and a process of self-discovery. They all took place in safe, supportive environments. They generally did not fit the stereotypical model of teenagers dropping acid at a rock concert, looking for awesome visuals and good vibes.

  Rick Doblin

  Powerful, Teenager, Dropping Acid

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• No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Disappointment, Long, Soul

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1956). “The God of All Comfort”, p.206, CCEL

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• When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender, and stereotypes and social expectations become more prominent in the mind. This can change self-perception, alter interests, debilitate or enhance ability, and trigger unintentional discrimination. In other words, the social context influences who you are, how you think and what you do.

  Cordelia Fine

  Thinking, Self, Perception

  Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.16, Icon Books Ltd

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• Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Children, Motherhood, Preparation

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• Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation. But when we let go of everything, open ourselves to any truth, and see the world without fear or judgement, then we are finally able to begin the process of peeling off the shell of false identity that prevents our true self from growing and shining in to the world.

  Paul Buchheit

  Letting Go, Self, Shining

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• If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Recipes, Unhappiness, Ifs

  "Depending on God" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2011.

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• I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism, and I have a communications degree. I studied journalism -- who, what, where, when, and why -- of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us.

  Sarah

  Sorry, Communication, Democracy

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• The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Home, Land, Possibility

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• Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Song, Joy, Live Your Life

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• Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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• There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

  Peter Greenaway

  Opportunity, Emotional, Massage

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• No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

  Jude Morgan

  Disappointment, Mean, Risk

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• I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

  Jude Morgan

  People, Disappoint

  Jude Morgan (2011). “Indiscretion”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

  Mark Twight

  Environmental, Peers, Influence

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• We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to figure out what that is as soon as possible, so you go about the business of being on track, of not being owned by what your mother said, what society said, whatever people think a woman is supposed to be when you can exceed other people’s expectations and be defined by your own!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

  Suze Orman

  Offering, Strings Attached, Generosity

  "The 8 Qualities of a Successful Life" by Suze Orman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

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• Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

  Demi Lovato

  Disappointment, Waiting, Happens

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong”, Hachette UK

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• Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Being Real, Illusion

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.34, Harmony

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• Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Hope, Spring, Rain

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.

  Dalai Lama

  Genuine Concern, Concern For Others, Giving

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• Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Dream, Believe, World

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