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Tag Name "Expectation" (409)

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Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.
Rajneesh
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Expectation is a powerful attractive force.
Rhonda Byrne
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Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
Antonio Banderas
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Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
Samuel Johnson
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Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.
Michael Crichton
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Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.
William Poundstone
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expectation isn't the same as desire
Margaret Atwood
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Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
Baltasar Gracian
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I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.
Alison Pill
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.
Amanda Lindhout
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Opportunity meets you at your level of expectation.
Bill Bartmann
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
Ambrose Bierce
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That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
Billie Joe Armstrong
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prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
Ambrose Bierce
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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.
Brendan Rodgers
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
Brian Tracy
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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
Amy Tan
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People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the pieces with and, when they drop them again, to get back down and help them pick them up again. And that's real love - without condition and without expectation.
Brooke Fraser
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Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andre Maurois
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The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.
Andrew Bird
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The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children, with the confident expectation that thereby the needless de-struction of the forests will be stayed, and the improvement of grounds about school buildings and residences will be promoted.
Andrew S. Draper
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Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
Adam Smith
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