Expecting Quotes - Page 27

• Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Business

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.133, Knopf

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• Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

  Andre Dubus

  Father

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• I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Disappointment, Expectations

  Mary Russell Mitford (1872). “Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: Edited by Henry Chorley. In 2 volumes. I”, p.116

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• For many people, the only reason to do anything is that it's best for them individually. And I think that's why planners have to be more realistic about devising policies so the stakeholders will say, "I see what you mean - that'll help me." I think expecting people to do the right thing for the right reason leads to a lot of failure in public policy.

  Donald Shoup

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: la.streetsblog.org

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• I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself, it can't just build off the first one or play variations.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Play, Variation

  "Joss Whedon takes on 'Empire Strikes Back,' 'Twilight'". Interview with James Hibberd, www.ew.com. August 22, 2013.

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• We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Peace, Moving, Home

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• I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.

  Thomas Lennon

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

  Claire Foy

  Hate, Actors, Clue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

  Bernie Mac

  Awards, Upset, Expecting Something

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• I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Race, Laughing

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• Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Mean, Heart

  Norman Vincent Peale (2012). “The Power Of Positive Thinking For Young People”, p.53, Random House

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• Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Spiritual, Mean, Alive

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

  Eric Maisel

  Giving Up, Focus, Decision

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• Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

  Bernie Mac

  Upset, Expecting Something, Way

  "Bernie Mac Interviewed - 'Pride'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

  Eric Thomas

  Yield, Kind, Environment

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• My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.

  Anna Banks

  Dad, Swallowing, Poison

  Anna Banks (2013). “Of Triton”, p.75, Macmillan

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• I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God

  William Carey

  Dream, Attempting, Great Things

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• People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference.

  Simon Baker

  Kindness, Differences, People

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• The Church is a family expecting guests.

  Andy Stanley

  Church, Guests

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• Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Fighting, Men

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• But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable experience.

  Roger Ebert

  White, Snow, Complexity

  Roger Ebert's review of "Snow White and the Huntsman", www.rogerebert.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

  Dominic Cooper

  Grief, Least Expecting

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• There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

  Andriy Shevchenko

  Country, Team, Responsibility

  "Shevchenko want to end career on a high". edition.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• The greatest joy comes from giving and serving, so replace your habit of focusing exclusively on yourself and what's in it for you. When you make the shift to supporting others in your life, without expecting anything in return, you'll think less about what you want and find comfort and joy in the act of giving and serving.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Comfort And Joy, Giving

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 24, 2014

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• I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Book, Kids, Community

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