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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"
Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?
Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.
When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church
There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.
I was rejected, never given any expectations. ... Then at least, I won't be a burden to others. It's alright if the only one who hurts is me...!
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, the end result does not match the expectations. '10 Enradhukulla' is still a movie very close to my heart.
It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.
Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.
Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.
When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.
I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.
You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.
I don't see coach job stressful, I really don't. Of course, there is pressure and expectation, but I wouldn't necessarily equate that with stress.
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.
I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.
People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?
When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.
It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.
Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
When you're the lead and on most of the call sheets, some people have expectations of you and whether you like it or not, you kind of set the tone.
And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose
By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.
When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon.
Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.
I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.
By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.
I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
People can have all the expectations that they want, but I know that you never know what's going to happen in life. Everything is part of the journey.
I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.
Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do things your way and Have Fun!
One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.
I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.
I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.
By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.