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Expectations Quote by Teju Cole

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“I look at his hands. In those hands is new knowledge.”

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“The mind roams more widely in the dark than it does in light. It is no surprise, then, stepping out of the unlit house into the unlit compound to find myself with the sudden thought, What if I inhabited another body and had a different destiny? We have all had these notions, perhaps while standing on a porch over a…

“Each person must, on some level, take himself as the calibration point for normalcy, must assume that the room of his own mind is not, cannot be, entirely opaque to him. Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite…

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

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“As I contemplated the silent world before me, I thought of the many romantic ideas attached to blindness. Ideas of unusual sensitivity and genius were evoked by the names of Milton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Borges, Ray Charles; to lose physical sight, it is thought, is to gain second sight. One door closes and another, greater one, opens. Homer’s blindness, many…

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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 this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was invisible to most people (John 3:3)-it could not be understood or experienced…

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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