Quotes: expectations
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Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
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I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
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Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
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We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
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Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol', but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.
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I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
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I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
