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GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.
The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.
Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.
I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.
If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.
I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.
I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations.
I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.
Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.
I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.
Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.
The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly.
I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.
Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
So to some extent he [Barack Obama] is a victim of the expectations and the high hopes that we experienced.
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
We enjoy the expectations people have of us. The higher they are, the more pressure, the better we like it.
Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.