Expectations Quotes - Page 13

The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.

One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

Achieving what I set out to do: to feel that I was instrumental in starting a great new movement which could not only change the course of things for Humanity and the rest of Creation, but alter Man's expectation of surviving for much longer on this planet.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.

Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others.

As you get older, you tend to be a little less patient with people - people who are not prepared, people who have unrealistic expectations, people who make unrealistic demands, people who think they're more special than other people.

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.