Quotes About Expectation

Money, Mississippi, looks exactly like it sounds. Shall I stop him?

People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same.

I had rather not have any more of my hopes and illusions mocked by sad realities.

Expectancy is the seed that helps the impossible to be made possible.

When your eyes are on prosperity, they are moved away from the parousia, a Greek word for the Lord's coming

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.

Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

so that the almost universal occurrence of this symptom in chronic catarrh may be expected.

And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for.

There is a point when life, having showered us with jewels for nothing, begins to exact our life's blood for paste.

Readers who come to the Bible expecting something more like an accurate textbook, a more-or-less objective recalling of the past—because, surely, God wouldn't have it any other way—are in for an uncomfortable read. But if they take seriously the words in front of them, they will quickly find that the Bible doesn't deliver on that expectation. Not remotely.

Sara caught sight of them stumbling toward the tent together, and hurried over. "Are you all right?" "No he's fucking not," Ozzie barked at her. "You might have told me." "It's a hunt. What did you expect?" Ozzie's anger spluttered out. She was right. What had I expected it to be like? Just another TSI spectacular?

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Tochee

Todo aquel que haya leído una novela o haya visto una película sabe que la historia que no sorprende está muerta de antemano.

La narrativa surge de la violación de la expectativa».

nada atrapa más rápido nuestra atención que la necesidad de saber qué pasará después.

Hay que introducir tensión entre la expectativa y la incertidumbre.

Siegel, who codirects UCLA's Mindsight Institute and is author of the scientifically acclaimed books "The Developing Mind: and "The Mindful Brain," broke down the essential sequence of surprise as expectation + violation of expectation. He quoted Jerome Bruner, one of the fathers of cognitive psychology, who said "narrative emerges from violations to expectations.

que nada atrapa más rápido nuestra atención que la necesidad de saber qué pasará después.

Hay que introducir tensión entre la expectativa y la incertidumbre. La tensión emocional nos induce a pensar que quizá la cosa vaya así, pero puede salir de otra manera, lo cual nos hace preguntarnos qué pasará luego.» Cuanto más nos preguntemos qué sucederá después, más atención prestamos. Y cuanta más atención prestemos, más escucharemos, percibiremos y retendremos.

Why? Because he believed that "living in the expectation of death . . . would . . . be . . . harder" than living with an illusion. His position may have been highly humane, but it was also debilitating.

She was very easy to please, because she took joy in the smallest things, but exacting, too, because that small thing must be authentic, and wondrous in its small self, and not any kind of bullshit. She could detect bullshit from a hillside away. But then she took people at face value and expected the best of them until proven otherwise.