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• A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

  Seamus Heaney

  Political, Groups, Said

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

  Lorin Maazel

  New York, Passion, Thinking

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• Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Hurt, Past

  "Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy". Book by Sarah Ban Breathnach, 1995.

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• It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

  Emily Procter

  Baby, Reality, Waiting

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• Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Relationship, Playing Games

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• We tend to live up to our expectations.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Attitude, Self Esteem

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Words Of Wisdom, Weakness

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7278, Delphi Classics

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• I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Grateful, Two, Potters

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• Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

  Pepper Schwartz

  Holiday, Wonder, Enough

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• Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Leadership, Believe

  "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" by John Heilemann, www.wired.com. November 1, 2000.

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• Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Failure, Keeping Promises

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.216

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• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

  Ramakrishna

  Attachment, Rewards

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• I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

  Jane Horrocks

  Thinking, Icons, Want

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• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hope, Disappointment, Soul

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

  Brian Tracy

  Excellence, Literature

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 07, 2014

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• to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  Fanny Burney

  Increase, Enjoyment, Diminish

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

  Mike Huckabee

  Opportunity, People, Ordinary

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• Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

  Ellis Peters

  Hero, Coward, Common

  Ellis Peters (2014). “Dead Man's Ransom”, p.8, Head of Zeus

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• Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

  Shana Alexander

  Letters, Envelopes

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Sports, Feelings, Nervous

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• Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

  Mary Pierce

  Winning, Stuff, Tough

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• I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

  Tommy Shaw

  Ideas, Band, World

  Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com.

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• Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

  Tina Weymouth

  Change, Art, Names

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• I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.

  Kim Novak

  Sex, Thinking, People

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

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• It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

  Brad Henry

  Children, Excellence, Full Potential

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