Quotes About Expectation

IT WAS ANOTHER HOUR BEFORE ANYTHING SHOWED UP.

Drivers hit their horns in anticipation of potential fractional delays.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst. That

Stands for, aren't really Marines yet." "Like Marine stands for muscles are requested, intelligence not expected.

Anchoring our hope to Christ means we live with a confident expectation that he will therefore fulfill his promises to us.

Biblical hope is the confident expectation that God is willing and able to fulfill the promises he has made to those who trust in him.

It's possible to perceive what is coming and still be dumbfounded when it happens.

When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend Envy who then for some reason never shows up.

It's peculiar, to reach your destination," he told me. "You think you'll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment. Instead you get there and find distance still to go.

She kept looking away then back to me, as though at a nice surprise. This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone's nice surprise.

the rest of the company would have preferred it if her husband had been the guest at the Beckhams

first of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again

We miss the effects of randomness in life because when we assess the world, we tend to see what we expect to see. We in effect define degree of talent by degree of success and then reinforce our feelings of causality by noting the correlation. That's why although there is sometimes little difference in ability between a wildly successful person and one who is not as successful, there is usually a big difference in how they are viewed.

The answer lies in a phenomenon called regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received,"15 Lerner concluded that "for the sake of their own sanity," people overestimate the degree to which ability can be inferred from success.

People expect good luck to follow bad luck, or they worry that bad will follow good.

We cannot see a person's potential, only his or her results, so we often misjudge people by thinking that the results must reflect the person.

regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

We cannot know whether our single observation represents the mean or an outlier, an event to bet on or a rare happening that is not likely to be reproduced.

few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received

Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments could be insulated from expectation and based only on relevant data.

that in a random series of 101,000,007 zeroes and ones, you should expect at least 10 nonoverlapping subsequences of 1 million consecutive zeros.11

When we perform an assessment or measurement, our brains do not rely solely on direct perceptional input. They also integrate other sources of information—such as our expectation.

We miss the effects of randomness in life because when we assess the world, we tend to see what we expect to see. We in effect define degree of talent by degree of success and then reinforce our feelings of causality by noting the correlation.