The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The vast majority of things parents and kids get in conflict over are highly predictable. We're disagreeing about the same expectations the… — Ross W. Greene Copy Share Image
“In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other people’s expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Our expectation of the gratitude of others for what we've done for them is sometimes exaggerated because of our deep desire for… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Expectations are those desires you believe you have the right to see fulfilled. Due to our own conditioning by numerous factors, we… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in… — John Daly Copy Share Image
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning.… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I'm used to it. I'm used to being cancelled on. I'm used to being left out. I'm used to being the second… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well there's a million other girls who do it just like you Looking as innocent as possible to get to who they… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
A Killer Brand exists when an entity derives a disproportionate amount of success in its category because of a compelling and differentiated… — Frank Lane Copy Share Image
I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
No, 'cause, I mean, the expectation for me is I'm gonna try my best to win the tournament. But it's the people… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture. Each evening I… — Brant Hansen Copy Share Image
“If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a… — Ana Ivanovic Copy Share Image
So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
If you want to change an external part of your life, then you are first required to change the internal beliefs that… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing… — John Mark McMillan Copy Share Image
“Happiness is good management of expectations and good management means making order and assembling the contingent elements of the "do's'" and the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
“Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I… — Beck Copy Share Image