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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
In New York, the expectation seems to be that everyone will play his absolute hardest, be ultra-competitive, do anything necessary to win.
When I got to the second album, there was an expectation, because we'd sold nearly seven million albums on the first record, that this would do eight or nine.
Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
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As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.
There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.
A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don't feel it.
My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.
The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.
I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.
You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.
As devices become more portable and content is increasingly digital, connectivity is fast becoming a fundamental expectation and lifestyle requirement.
There's a different expectation, not just on mothers but on women. We're expected to do it all, to have it all, and look good through the process and have a smile on our face, and that's not always the case.
If I disappoint someone, it's their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don't know me. I can't control what they want.
Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.
I'm very ambitious. I'm the kind of person who still feels as if they could win an Oscar. Albeit, with no evidence to support that expectation whatsoever.
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.
A Killer Brand exists when an entity derives a disproportionate amount of success in its category because of a compelling and differentiated expectation that comes to be associated with its name.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.
Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.
One day, as I was speaking to another mother of a disabled child, I said our secret weapon against this disease is to do all we can without any expectation of results.
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
The expectation levels aren't as high because a team is expected to win on its home court. That takes a little of the pressure off us on the road.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Our expectation is that by 2050, which is a long time away, India will be the largest economy in the world, overtaking both the U.S. and China.
And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend? Or is that expectation unique to you, and your infinitesimal heart?
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.
He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.
Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who do we really care about?
I'm very lucky to be a comedian, and I feel privileged that people come to see me in the expectation that I will make them laugh.
There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.
This goes to show how much of an impact culture has. Even in countries where online access is readily available, there may not be the same expectation for women.
The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.
A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.
Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.
I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.
I think there's always the whole expectation that men can age and look fine, and girls have to be all conscious. But guys can also keep their skin intact.
I realise that there is a certain expectation from a 'typical heroine' in Bollywood. She is expected to be beautiful and have a toned body. And to achieve that, I have literally starved myself.
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.
I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.
When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
