When travelling, dress as comfortably as possible and don't have expectations of everything going perfectly.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible.

The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

We feel pressure from every angle to meet expectations, but the pressure also pushes us in a positive was as well.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Something you're aware of being a quarterback coming here-you have expectations, and you want to live up to those.

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

The expectation is that party leaders solve problems. That's why substantial differences must first be cleared up.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

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