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There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.
The more users' expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.
you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.
If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.
Monetary policy should remain data dependent, be well communicated, and ensure that inflation expectations remain anchored.
If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.
If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.
Contrary to general expectations, caste, regionalism, criminalisation, and parochial interests continue to sway the nation.
The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.
The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.
I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.
If you are an industry kid, the first film is given to you on a platter. However, the pressure and expectations are immense.
My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.
The one thing I’ve always had going for me was people’s low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me.
Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.
I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you.
Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.
Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.
After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.
Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.
Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.
Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?
The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.