Expectations Quotes - Page 43

If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

Believe in yourself, believe in something higher than yourself, be selfless, exercise, have great expectations and execute day by day.

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Newcomers should be put in an established position where the expectations are known and help is available. New major assignments should mainly go to people whose behaviors and habits are well known and who have already earned trust and credibility.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

Good things come to those with no expectations.

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

We seem to invest so much time and belief that those things are stable in some way - something to build towards, or something to use to better understand where we come from. So often those expectations are just so out of line with how the universe works. I don't see it as a productive way of seeing the world, so, when I deal with that stuff formally - or when I try to allow it to inspire me - I'm open to it twisting itself up.

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's an actor and I can't stand watching movies with him because he never quite allows himself to just watch the story. He'll comment on the lighting, he'll comment on the [camera] angle. I'm not saying there's a wrong way to watch it - maybe that's helpful to him - but to me, you're getting way too caught up in the technical aspects.

Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish — I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible.

I won't necessarily make new music because when you make a record there are these great expectations on the side of the record company who are going to produce your record, promoters that are going to do your shows. They want you to do interviews, they want you to play shows. I mean, they want it to be a campaign.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.