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• We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

  Charles Kennedy

  Topics in Children, Expectations

  Tags in High, Politicians

• What is it they want from the man that they didn’t get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he’s done with his work, what’s any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

  William Gaddis

  Topics in Expectations, Work

  Tags in Man

• When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Film, Worked

• The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.

  Eli Khamarov

  Topics in Expectations, Life
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  The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.

  Eli Khamarov

  Topics in Expectations, Life

• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

  William Congreve

  Topics in Expectations, Life

  Tags in Uncertainty

• You know, I find it so difficult being a… as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

  Werner Klemperer

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Fact
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  Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

  Ann Landers

  Topics in Expectations, Life

  Tags in Inevitable, Trouble

• I put certain expectations on my players and I expect them to live up to those expectations every game we play. This team enjoys playing the game of football and they are showing it with their play on the field.

  Aaron Boelter

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Players, Football, Live

• I do chores around the house, but I don’t get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor… I’m sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in House
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  If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

  Michael Jordan

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Accept, Change

• Everybody wants to start. That’s my plan. You always expect to start, and that’s my goal.

  A. J. Feeley

  Topics in Expectations, Goal

• It’s bittersweet, … It didn’t work out here. It’s something I’ve got to swallow. They had high expectations and I had high expectations for myself. For some reason… I’ve got to put it on myself. But it happened.

  A. J. Feeley

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Myself

• 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.’

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Computer, Expectations

  Tags in Operators, Installed, Employment, Expensive, Realized, Company

• You must not expect anything from others. It’s you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it’s up to you — your own choices — what you get from others remains a present, a gift.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Expectations, Service

  Tags in Choice, Choosing

• Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Cat

• The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

  Confucius

  Topics in Expectations, Life, Work

  Tags in Diligence

• A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Expectations, Ideals, Life, Love

  Tags in Responsibility, Duty, Purpose, Meaning

• When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

  Byron Kathleen Mitchell

  Topics in Expectations, Fear, Influence, Suffering

  Tags in Relationships, Control

• To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

  Mark Nepo

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Change/Growth, Attention, Listening