It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.

It basically proves what we suspected for a long time — that kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Look for a miracle in every encounter.

The core number is the most meaningful number. The market probably likes the number. I think the expectation for 0.2 percent is a comfort number.

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare...

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.

For just over my price range, I can get something way under my quality expectation level. Thanks, inflation!

It’s an expectation: What are the most important things to accomplish at this time? To find out as much as we can about what those combinations are may be more important at this time than...

We all have a suspicion and hope that we’ve just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living...

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the...

Creativity isn’t meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity.

The competition should not be one of huge expectation about putting out your best team,

I have every expectation it will set a new record, I think manufacturing has a future.

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog’s lifestyle.

My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

Failure is not able to have what you planned for, you planning for ‘F’ and having ‘A’ is a failure. Success is having what you do expect or planned, having ‘F’ when you planned for...

Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.

They’ve shown me that they’re willing to take on a higher standard and expectation level. This group showed me that even the fourth-year kids with only one year left, they’re willing to really step it...

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word–the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

Expectation creates the reality.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar...

There is an expectation that grown-ups are going to take care of little kids, not destroy them.

Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he’s bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame me because you ascribed to me qualities that I hadn’t got? I never...

I don’t expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore, that I can do, any good kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do it now. Let me not...

The expected always happens

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.

It will be one of the nicest buildings in the state. Our expectation was that after we are handed the keys to the front door, it would take 36 to 37 months to finish the...

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into...

Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don’t waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence.

There was so much expectation built in for the stock … I think that the expectations were about as high as they could get for it. I think it was a case of buy on...

Love with no expectation of return.

I always have optimism, but I’m realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX… It’s just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway.

Our expectation is that we are looking at upcoming good quarters for IBM.

Its always hard to find out that a person you once considered a great friend has completely turned their back on you. Life is full of surprises, some good and some bad. From my experience,...

Life is an ongoing learning path where you make mistakes & you learn from it. You get better, you grow emotionally, socially and gets mature gradually. There are significant times where we are good and...

I’d call this a natural consequence of the changing dynamics of expectation. Being on the cover changes the way people see themselves, and they have to metabolize a different set of conditions. They’re supposed to...

It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark...

If the program doesn’t make any sense and the expectation to the workers and the employers are so out of sync with reality, that’s a failed program.

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

Gold is a safe haven and there’s expectation that with the bloated trade deficit in the U.S., the U.S. dollar is vulnerable.

People who get offended by your not saying ‘Thank you!’ … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.