#expectation

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. ↗

— Denis Johnson

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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. ↗

— George Eliot

#experience #motive #experience

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life #life

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#i #live #mine #up #world

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs. ↗

— William Howard Stein

#expectations #high #keep #moderate #needs

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

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We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#expectations #live #revolution #rising

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#builds #children #does #easily #england

I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled. ↗

— Lloyd Cutler

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Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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