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Expectations Quote by Ken Liu

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“Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.”

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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

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People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that…

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“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

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“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”

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The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

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“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.”

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Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.

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“Dad and I went on walking, our shadows touching.”

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“I can only wish that someday you’ll also be pestered by a student as persistent to learn what you do not wish to teach.”

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I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they…

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“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.”

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Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical…

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Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of…

Denise Morrison

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My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had…

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation…

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I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.

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When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed.

Nouman Ali Khan

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Keeping up with everybody's expectation is soooo hard!

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize…

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“Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.”

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Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of…

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Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities.

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It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

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