Expecting Quotes - Page 9

• Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Effort, Mind, Grasping

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• My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

  Sally Hawkins

  Character, Feet, Age

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Perfect, Perfection, Release

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• I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I'm trying to please everybody, and ya just can't do that ... at least I can't.

  Tim Allen

  Commitment, Reality, Airports

  "An interview with Tim Allen". Interview to Laugh Factory Magazine, www.timallen.com. 1994.

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• You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Jobs, Years, Acting

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• Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

  Niecy Nash

  Beautiful, Children, Self Esteem

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• We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Ideas, Giving

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah)”, p.550, Booklassic

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• Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Government, People

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, People, Important

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• And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.

  Johnny Mathis

  Voice, People, Consistency

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• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  Patrick Carney

  Fun, Play, People

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Have enough faith in the love of God to believe that a short heartfelt prayer is just as good as a long one. Too long a session of prayer usually means that in your heart you really doubt the love of God, and think that a great deal of effort and toil will be necessary to move Him. Pray quietly and sincerely for a reasonable time-and then leave the matter, expecting success.

  Emmet Fox

  Prayer, Believe, Moving

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• By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Intellectual, Helping

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook". Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

  Richard Rohr

  Eye, Cynical, Negative

  "Third Sunday of Advent: Keeping Our Hearts Open in Hell". Fr. Richard Rohr's homily at the Center for Action and Contemplation, cac.org. December 16, 2012.

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• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

  Gary Numan

  Wall, Disappointment, Dark

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• There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Sex, Children

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• People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, People, Heaven

  John Ruskin (1905). “Selections from Writings”

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• Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Pain, Failure, Adversity

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• Never want something without expecting it

  Bob Proctor

  Want Something, Want

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• There are Millions of people in this world. Then why are you born? The reason is, Allah is expecting something from you, which is not possible by Millions.

  Shahid Afridi

  People, Expecting Something, World

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• Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

  Simon Sinek

  Generosity, Return, Expecting Nothing In Return

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Mar 16, 2015

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• Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Opposites, People

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• It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Greatness, Exaggeration Is, Imagination

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.

  David Wilcock

  Healing, Breathing, Everyday

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• I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

  Kris Allen

  Giving, Expecting Something, Want

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