Quotes About Expectation

No one has a transparent view of the world. In fact, we all carry around a personal worldview—the biases and experiences and expectations that color the way we perceive the world.

the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

Expectations are the engine of our perceptions.

Doug needs to leave for a very simple reason. He's been branded. Everyone at the company has an expectation of who Doug is and what he can do.

They want the way it will make them feel.

We hesitate to make a promise like "the show will be on at 11:30," because we're not sure we can meet the deadline and make it happen in a way that allows us to control the outcome.

There's nothing that we can do to ensure that tomorrow turns out exactly as we hope it will.

We were, fair queen, / Two lads that thought there was no more behind / But such a day to-morrow as to-day, / And to be boy eternal.

The nature of hope is curious to me. It can sustain us through the darkest of times. It can buoy us above every reasonable expectation of despair. Yet hope can shatter us just as readily as the darkness can. People refer to it as false hope, but I think that's misleading, because the feeling itself is painfully true. It is a treacherous hope, more precisely. A dangerous one.

It is the nature of our lives, Madeleine. If you dance in the limelight, it's only natural that people will look at you. You can't expect otherwise.

He loosened the breeches then tugged them down over his hips. Her eyes widened slightly, and she let out a shaky breath. "Should I put them back on?" "No." She sat. "I suppose I'm not used to seeing a man. You're larger than I expected." "Since I'm being compared to a five-year-old, I won't let your observations go to my head.

It was much easier to expect nothing an be all right than to expect something and be disappointed.

Desire- grasping, clinging, greed, attachment - is a state of mind that defines what we think we need in order to be happy. We project all of our hopes and dreams of fulfillment onto some object of our attention. This may be a certain activity or outcome, a particular thing or person. Deluded by our temporary enchantment, we view the world with tunnel vision. That object, and that alone, will make us happy.

In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.

though waiting for someone to make a move. "I

When we assume that God's love is based on our behavior we've set ourselves up for a devastating fall.

In war, as in love—indeed, as in all such areas of so-called human endeavor—expectation tended to outrun execution, particularly when the latter was given a head start in the race, and nowhere did this apply more lamentably, at any rate from the Richmond point of view, than in the wake of Chickamauga, probably the greatest and certainly the bloodiest of all the battles won by the South in its fight for the independence it believed to be its birthright.

could give them on CORPS, and said he was "looking forward to seeing the article in Probe magazine." I told him I hoped it was good enough to print. He curled his lip at me. By the time I dragged through my gate, I was already late for my date

With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

What's real? I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be.

She thought she could be saved. She thought he could take her hand and owldance her around the circle. She thought she could watch him fancydance, watch his calf muscles grow more and more perfect with each step. She thought he was Crazy Horse.

I stupidly hoped that time would stand still if I stayed still.

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.