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• By the time I was 18 years old, I had achieved everything that was in my heart to do and at the same time I wasn't finding the fulfillment I was expecting to get from it. All of the experiences were incredible and I wouldn't trade them for the world, but it wasn't fulfilling me. I went through the motions for a few more years, but I was looking for something more.

  Kelly Clark

  Heart, Years, World

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and then you watch the film and suddenly it's very scary because the way the jump scares fit together building up the suspense in the audience because it's making them jump when they're least expecting it.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Building Up, Scary, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• I had a friend who was the King's surgeon in England. One day I asked him what makes a great surgeon. He replied, "What distinguishes a great surgeon is his knowledge. He knows more than other surgeons. During an operation he finds something which he wasn't expecting, recognizes it and knows what to do about it." It's the same thing with advertising people. The good ones know more. How do you get to know more? By reading books about advertising. By picking the brains of people who know more than you do. From the Magic Lanterns. And from experience.

  David Ogilvy

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.'

  Maria Sharapova

  Philosophy, Winning, Thinking

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• I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now...I've grown as a player and as a man.

  Josh Howard

  Player, Men

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• The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more than their contemporaries dreamed of, or even themselves discovered, that is, when they were in a frame of mind fitted to behold the truth. Referred to the world's standard, they are always insane. Even savages have indirectly surmised as much.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Hero, Discovery

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.110

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• Not expecting someone to measure up is an insult

  Marshall Sylver

  Insult

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• There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.

  Saadi

  Eye, Doors, Differences

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.19, Innovations and Information

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• I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

  Francine Rivers

  Giving, People, Credit

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• For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.

  Susan Cooper

  Children, Lying, Sleep

  Susan Cooper (1977). “Silver on the Tree”, Simon & Schuster

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• Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.

  Rachel Caine

  Cousin, Screw You, Dropping

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• To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

  Diane Setterfield

  People, Looks, Trouble

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Father, People, Heaven

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.208, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

  Susan Sontag

  Despair, Littles, Expect Nothing

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.189, Macmillan

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• Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I’m not stupid. (Xypher) I didn’t say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mistake, Stupid, Moving

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• I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship.

  Laurence Sterne

  Writing, Character, Giving

  Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott (1832). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.7

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• King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

  Robin Hobb

  Kings

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest”, p.751, Del Rey

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• If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Ready, You Choose

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

  Maurice Setters

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Attitude

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• I've had guys, when I've been single, come date me and I've found out they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person-- and that's just not me. I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Strong, Crazy, People

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• Not to settle. If you're not happy with a person, leave. And wait until you find that one person who makes you feel good about yourself every single day and is not expecting you to change, but to grow.

  Zoe Saldana

  Feel Good, Waiting, That One Person

  "Zoe Saldana Will Hand You Your Ass on a Silver Platter". Interview with Kimberly Cutter, www.marieclaire.com. July 14, 2014.

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• When your dealing with a lot of men talking about selling drugs, you have to be the toughest one there, you have to be the one putting in all the work that you are expecting them to do. I was tired of leading from the front and living that life. That was not the aggressive lifestyle that I wanted to live. I wanted to progress as a man.

  Damon Dash

  Tired, Men, Talking

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• There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

  May Sarton

  Acceptance, Balance, Asking

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Drama, Fall, Mean

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• Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Mistake, Long

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