Quotes About Expectation

We are all, at heart, gradualists, our expectations set by the steady passage of time. But the world of the Tipping Point is a place where the unexpected becomes expected, where radical change is more than possibility. It is—contrary to all our expectations—a certainty.

We knew that our minority students, a lot of them, were doing well," says Richard Lempert, one of the authors of the Michigan study. "I think our expectation was that we would find a half- or two-thirds-full glass, that they had not done as well as the white students but nonetheless a lot were quite successful. But we were completely surprised. We found that they were doing every bit as well. There was no place we saw any serious discrepancy.

does not believe that consumers — even spaghetti lovers — know what they desire if what they desire does not yet exist.

He watched David approach, first with scorn, then with surprise, and then with what can only have been horror—as it dawned on him that the battle he was expecting had suddenly changed shape.

The only thing you have to fear more than failure is success.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

If you wholeheartedly expect success, it will happen.

If you expect nothing but success, then you will be a success.

While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons]

Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.

Life is surprises, try not to expect everything.

Sometimes great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great.

You tend to become like that, what you want most. Its up to you to make it happen. Expect the best and work for the best. Dedicate yourself and make your life happen with determination.

Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you.

Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect.

Do they wish us well?Or hope to see us fail?

When dreams come true, you won't realize unless they were dreams of bad fate.

When you succeed in life, You cannot be sure till you reach at the point you expect.

Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard.

Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.