Quotes About Expectation

Millions of men and women throughout the nation are still engaged in this popular pastime of trying to GET without GIVING. Some of them are lined up with labor unions, where they demand shorter hours and more pay! Others do not take the trouble to work at all. They demand government relief and are getting it.

Ninguém está pronto para alguma coisa até acreditar que pode tê-la.

when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance." Barnes

Psychologists have correctly said that "when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance

El período entre los cuarenta y los cincuenta es, por regla general, el más fructífero. Las personas no deberían acercarse a esta edad con miedo y temblorosas, sino con esperanza y una ansiosa expectación.

Do not expect troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it.

Psychologists have correctly said that "when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance." Barnes

The habit of rendering more service than is expected

Happiness is always just around the bend; always in sight but just out of reach.

Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird's belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race "looking out for its best interests," as a politician would say. On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief.*

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

So we can learn a lot from data—but not as much as we expect. Sometimes a lot of data can be meaningless; at other times one single piece of information can be very meaningful. It

The source of the tragic in history is in mistaking someone else's unconditional for conditional—and the reverse.

The turkey problem can be generalized to any situation where the same hand that feeds you can be the one that wrings your neck.

No one in particular is a good predictor of anything. Sorry.

This little bit of uncertainty might make the diner relax and forget the time pressures.

Events that are nonrepeatable are ignored before their occurrence, and overestimated after (for a while). After

When we think of tomorrow, we just project it as another yesterday.

people often think that it will surely be the next batch of news that will really make a difference to their understanding of things.)

The longer we had to wait for it, the more severe it would be.

Black Swan is a sucker's problem. In other words, it occurs relative to your expectation

I engage in a gambling strategy that has 999 chances in 1,000 of making $ 1 (event A) and 1 chance in 1,000 of losing $ 10,000 (event B), as in Table 6.1. My expectation is a loss of close to $ 9 (obtained by multiplying the probabilities by the corresponding outcomes).

law of iterated expectations, which I outline here in its strong form: if I expect to expect something at some date in the future, then I already expect that something at present.