#expectation

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal. ↗

— Norah Jones

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ↗

— Charles Kettering

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The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

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I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people. ↗

— Marat Safin

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I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high. ↗

— John Starks

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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

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I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look. ↗

— Emily Procter

#always #careful #clothes #could #deserve

As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dreams