#expect

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#art #avoided #change #expectations #fresh

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise. ↗

— Gary Numan

#bit #dark #disappointment #expecting #get

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#chores #expected #family #had #i

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#actually #century #did #end #expected

The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us. ↗

— Juliette Fay

#observations-on-life #unexpected-humor #unexpected-life #wry #age

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect. ↗

— Lou Barletta

#barely #being #budget #city #difference

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#expectations #poison #anger

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#desire #expectations #fear #mystery #art

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#expectations #art

So throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life