Quotes About Expectation

La mejor pradera es la que siempre se encuentra al otro lado del horizonte. El agua más dulce, la del siguiente río. El cielo más azul, el que siempre ves encima de otra colina. Y antes de que te des cuenta, una mañana te castañetean las articulaciones y no puedes dormir dos horas seguidas sin levantarte a orinar, y sólo entonces comprendes que el mejor lugar quedó atrás, y que no lo viste porque estabas obsesionado en seguir adelante.

swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates

So often in life, moments that are long anticipated turn out to be profound disappointments.

He was not sure what he had been expecting. Outstanding beauty, or stunning grace, or something that struck him instantly to the heart. But Ankran's family were an ordinary-looking pair. Most people are, of course, to those that don't know them.

Life rarely turns out the way we expect. We must bend with the circumstances.

Bad news is never a surprise. Just a disappointment.

Oh well," sighed Glokta. "A man has to have hope doesn't he?" "Of course sir," muttered the servant, heading for the door. Does he?

Un banco con reputación de benevolencia es como una puta con reputación de castidad, siempre temes que no vayan a hacer el trabajo.

swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.

Sooner or later, you have to stop expecting folk to bend around your plans and fit your plans to the folk you've got.

exceeded every expectation. It was built on a wide promontory that

Because he'd been hoping... perhaps he still was. But hoping had made a fool of him. And Shivers was good and sick of looking the fool.

Supongo que el amor cae donde cae. La madre Owd levantó una ceja. —Por lo general se ve caer de lejos y da tiempo a apartarse. —Pues

It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort. All the things that Jezal had thought he wanted—power, fame, the beautiful trappings of greatness—they were nothing but dust. All he wanted now was for things to be as they had been, before he got them. But there was no way back. Not ever.

Men are greedy, aren't they? No gratitude. They don't think about what they've already got from you, only about what they can get next.

He would've liked his axe to hand, but hoping for a thing often brought on the opposite.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

What we're conditioned to believe about ourselves, and what we're programmed to think other people think about us, affects our performance, including how successful we are.

Because of the size of our enormous forebrain, the privilege of being a human being is that we can make thought more real than anything else—and that's how the placebo works. To see how the process unfolds, it's vital to examine and review three key elements: conditioning, expectation, and meaning. As you'll see, these three concepts all seem to work together in orchestrating the placebo response. I

For example, if you wake up and you think, Where's my pain? your familiar pain soon appears because you expected it to be there.

if your expectation is that your future will be like your past, then you are not only thinking in the past, but also selecting a known future based only on your past and emotionally embracing that event until your body (as the unconscious mind) believes that it's living in that future in the present moment.

How can I think, feel, and behave differently to produce the effect/result that I want? Our mission, then, is to willfully move into the state of consciousness that allows us to connect to universal intelligence, make direct contact with the field of possibilities, and send out a clear signal that we truly expect to change and to see the results that we want—in the form of feedback—produced in our lives.

expecting something to change in your life. If you use feelings and emotions as a barometer for change, you'll always talk yourself out of possibility

A 2001 study from the University of Rochester Cancer Center published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management concluded that expecting nausea was the strongest predictor that patients would actually experience it.16 The researchers