Quotes About Expectation

Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

One of the consequences of optimism is that one expects to learn from failure – one's own and others'.

What life has become, as Andreas said. And the only answer I have to that—the only one I've ever had—is what life could be. I have to admit: I'm no longer holding my breath.

Somewhere along the way the hopes of something better had become the dread of something worse. News

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

To have hope is to judge the present as inadequate while holding the audacity that an unrealized future will somehow improve upon the present.

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

Il eût fallu avoir peur de ce bonheur, peur de tout le malheur qu'il pouvait annoncer.

Se revoir ainsi après plusieurs années, c'est comme un premier rendez-vous.

La creación le había dado no solo una densidad insólita, sino también la capacidad de no esperar nada de nadie.

Por la tarde encendió el teléfono después de cada clase, pero seguía sin llegarle nada, ni la mínima respuesta; la misma agresividad en forma de ausencia.

For these 'future leaders' in the classroom, it is more important to understand the psychology of certainty. Often, we believe what we want to believe. Dan starts with an example of the 2016 Presidential Election in the United States. He asks the question: "Relative to what you expected to happen, how surprised were you when you learned that Trump had won the election?

though her gaze kept tracking nervously to the blue sky framed by the dome, expecting any minute steeply banking wings there, fire or smoke. How could people turn on happiness like a tap, and pretend the world was a bright and shiny place when they knew it wasn't at all?

their decisions to stay with their erstwhile captors. Some emphasized the virtues of freedom they found in Native American societies, including sexual freedom, but also freedom from the expectation

In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a fifteen-hour work week. There's every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn't happen.

Some emphasized the virtues of freedom they found in Native American societies, including sexual freedom, but also freedom from the expectation of constant toil in pursuit of land and wealth.

How can you turn a human relationship into something regulated by the state? How can someone be expected to commit themselves at the age of 20 or 25 to another person for the rest of their lives? Who knows what lies ahead or how the two will change in their attitude to life and each other? The whole idea is crazy.

TODAY IS GROUNDHOG DAY.2 Perhaps now it's better known for the movie 3 of the same name. Here is my ironic Groundhog day resolution… I will continue to do what I've always done, while expecting things to improve and the outcome to change!

Events don't actually occur as often as people predict they will. And this in turn is related to hindsight bias (the tendency to see past events as being more predictable than they were at the time), which I'll discuss shortly.

Smyth's predictions of the date of the Second Coming, as with everyone else's predictions of this event, have proved inaccurate.

1. Anticipate what's going to happen.

The human brain has a deceptive habit of filling in missing information and ignoring new information that doesn't fit the expectation.

It's one thing to refuse an invitation," Aaron said, "another to be told you'll never get one.

Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239