The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Frustration is a function of our 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.
Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.
Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations. . . They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers. '
When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.
If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.
You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.