Expectations Quotes - Page 34

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

I don't know whether it's spiritual development or trying to learn the psychologically with being an actor, but I realise the more I get into it that this was something I was always supposed to do. That allowed me to sit easiser in the life I was living. But that doesn't mean to say you just stroll through it. It takes work and the work is not always about acting. It's sometimes about how you deal with the ups and downs of hope, of expectation.

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and its own life , through the spectator, with his expectations, interpretations, back into life.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

I don't have any expectations.

I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.