Expect Quotes

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If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths… — Anthony Burgess
Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating. — Lee Bolman
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints. — Bruce Barton
So if you think America's politicians and citizens are willing to make the changes necessary to strengthen the U.S. dollar, then don't buy silver. But… — Robert Kiyosaki
Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect. — Harold Homer Anderson
Well, well. IM (and correspondence GM) Douglas Bryson once told me that he almost never plays a game that flows smoothly from start to finish;… — Jonathan Rowson
To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game. — Howard Staunton
I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest. — Winston Churchill
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a… — Mariella Frostrup
Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not… — Henry Latham Doherty
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. — Ted Koppel
In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless,… — Clarence Thomas
The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time,… — John F. Kennedy
It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something… — Marco Rubio
What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You… — Bertolt Brecht
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!! — Benjamin Franklin
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help to bring about… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for… — Denis Waitley
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if… — Henry David Thoreau
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success,… — Francis Marion Crawford

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