Quotes About Expectation

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.'

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.

people often act in a way that provokes precisely the reactions they are expecting. These

Harry sent ten different puns to a friend in the hope that at least one of the puns would make him laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

more reason to expect an opened lock in the case of an intelligently guided try than we would if the try was unguided

I've talked to Molina three times today, and he wants me to pull the rabbit out of the hat now".

Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?

Often we... expect and want every day to be just like today. Even though we're not satisfied with today, we settle for security instead of discovery.

There wasn't even enough meat to make proper fun of [....] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us ... I dunno ... stuff. Seriously, sorority girls have done the Walk of Shame home from frat parties feeling more satisfied.

The sensory stimuli we encounter do not, in and of themselves, except under unusual circumstances determine whether or not we pay attention to them; we, ourselves, do. In fact novel stimuli of great intensity (which usually are not gated) will be gated if they do not conform to the nature of expected sensory inputs.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Be aware that the expectation of possible awakening sometimes leads to a false awakening in which you dream of waking.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The principle is simply this: We tend to get what we expect—both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.

He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.

Always have an air of expectancy.

You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with Cosmic Ordering.

Sometimes your wish can become chaos ... be careful what you wish for!

Twenty years from now you will be disappointed you never used Cosmic Ordering today.