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Thursday, 21 August 2008
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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them." (Davies, Robertson - Genius)

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Browse Quotations about Expectation

A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent.
Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Expect victory and you make victory.
Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level...
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much -- if he lives and uses that in hand day by day -- shall be full to running over.
Good is not good, when better is expected.
High expectations are the key to everything.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
If something can go wrong it will.
If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
In order to win, you must expect to win.
It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
Prospect is often better than possession.
Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
We tend to get what we expect.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen.
Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
You begin by always expecting good things to happen
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him.
You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

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