My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I was raised in a favela, I had no expectations for my life. I would always wonder if I would be able… — Alex Pereira Copy Share Image
The reality is that it would be wiser and even kinder for politicians to be responsible about what they claim the NHS… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Everyone is in their own bubble with stresses, pressures, and expectations on themselves - no matter what job title they have. Mine… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
“they say they only want flowers to grow from my mouth, so i will look them dead in the eye as i… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
Building up expectations, creating unrealistic time frames, feeling like our end goal is the end all, be all can all lead to… — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I remember, in the early days of my marriage, I thought I married the wrong person. We held to our own ideas… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel,… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Halfway through Numbers, I got really jaded, and I had these unrealistic expectations about what Numbers could be. I thought it should… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have… — Laure Manaudou Copy Share Image
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth.… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
There's something about the energy and the expectations that an audience projects at you. I get up on stage and work and… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
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