Low Expectations Quotes

• No one rises to low expectations

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teaching

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• The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

  Warren Buffett

  Expectations, Secret, Lows

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• The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

  John C. Maxwell

  Christian, Expectations, Life Is

  John C. Maxwell (1996). “Breakthrough Parenting”, Focus on the Family Pub

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• It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

  Pamela Anderson

  Funny, Sarcastic, People

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  There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

  Jodi Picoult

  Happiness, Happy, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

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• The soft bigotry of low expectations

  Michael Gerson

  Expectations, Lows, Inner City Schools

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• Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Expectations, Lows

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape and learn quickly not to jump so high. They give up their quest for freedom. After the lid is removed, the fleas remain imprisond by their own self policing. So it is with life. Most of us let our own fears or the impositions of others imprison us in a world of low expectations.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Giving Up, Self, Expectations

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• The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

  Olivia Goldsmith

  Happiness, Expectations, Secret

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• I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

  Bill Watterson

  Funny Life, Expectations, Life Is

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• I'm the master of low expectations.

  George W. Bush

  Expectations, Lows, Masters

  "Bash: President says he builds relations on instinct" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2003.

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• If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

  Chip Kelly

  Expectations, Being The Best, Lows

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• Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Expectations, Disability, Lows

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• But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

  Robert Sternberg

  Teacher, Stupid, School

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• I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

  Trent Dilfer

  Sports, Golf, Thinking

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• I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations

  Jonathan Kozol

  Expectations, Challenges, Lows

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.284, Broadway Books

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• Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

  Joshua Ferris

  Book, Expectations, Lows

  "Joshua Ferris Interview: Rock Star in the Book Store". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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• As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

  Michael Gove

  Children, Men, People

  "Michael Gove's 'anti-Mr Men' speech in full". Speech in Brighton College by Michael Gove, politics.co.uk. May 09, 2013.

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• I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

  Michael Gove

  Expectations, Horizon, Different

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• When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Expectations, Would Be, Overcoming

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating

  Wayne Dyer

  Creating, Expectations, Lows

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace”, p.24, Hay House, Inc

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• Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

  Susan Jacoby

  Truth, Expectations, Intellectual

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• The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

  Allan Bloom

  Self, Effectiveness, Expectations

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 285, 1990.

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• That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Tavis Smiley

  Country, Self, Expectations

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• Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

  George W. Bush

  Expectations, Presidential, Conservative

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