#expect

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#disappointed #expectations #film #good #pleasantly

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#art #beck #call #drop #employers

He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life. ↗

— Anne Frasier

#life #life

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish. ↗

— Plautus

#frequently #happen #more #than #things

If you bring the blanket, I’ll bring the warmth.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#actually #because #being #expected #got

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ↗

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#having #otherwise #problem #problems #thinking

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 in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease. ↗

— Lama Surya Das

#approval #buddhism #buddhist-wisdom #craving #desire

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#conform #either #expected #go #going

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. ↗

— Charles M. Schwab

#attract #employers #expected #men #more