Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. . . expectations always travel at higher speeds.
We're living in a world where conservatism is on the rise - from America to Europe and in Singapore, too. People are finding it hard to accept the 'other': those who are different, or who don't conform to societal expectations or norms.
Expectations determine outcome, always!
Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.
Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood. . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.
Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go. . . with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.
I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp down expectations. If you listen to my stump speeches, if you listen to what I said at Grant Park, I kept on saying, "Look, this is not just about me, this is not going to happen in one year, or one term, or even one presidency. " And we tried to layer into everything we were saying a sense of hope, but also realism.
Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.
The threshold is the place of expectation.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.
Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.
There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.
Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger.
I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.
I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.