Quotes About Expectation

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. The same applies to our view of the past, which is the concern of history... There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.

The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.

But when a boy was born—on February 24, 1955—the designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out.

More than three thousand people showed up at the event, lining up two hours before curtain time. They were not disappointed, at least by the show. Jobs was onstage for three hours, and he again proved to be, in the words of Andrew Pollack

By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things. The original Mac team taught me that A-plus players like to work together, and they don't like it if you tolerate B work. Ask any member of that Mac team. They will tell you it was worth the pain.

people who expect deference because they have a PhD and don't want to deal with ordinary people tend to be annoying.

But what truly devastated Jobs was that he was not, after all, chosen as the Man of the Year.

NeXT and making Jobs its CEO. In the spoof Mike Markkula asked Jobs, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling UNIX with a sugarcoating, or change the world?" Jobs responded, "Because I'm now a father, I needed a steadier source of income." The release noted that "because of his experience at Next, he is expected to bring

By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things

Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too. I hope I didn't embarrass Office Palmer. She said that after all she heard about you she thought your johnson would be bigger. Tell her that the air conditioner was on.

It's a continual revelation when you come to understand that the only thing you can expect in return for your own dignity is hatred in the eyes of others. "BLUE

Most of human life is defined by waiting

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

I would rather be certain of a good result than hopeful of a great one.

Look at a Segway and tell me it's not the world's shittiest witch's broomstick. We only wanted jetpacks because we couldn't make magic carpets work.

Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.

I always entertain great hopes. —Robert Frost

You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future—or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be "better.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!