#expectations

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. ↗

— Bill Bradley

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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself. ↗

— James Brown

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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

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The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it. ↗

— Chris Cannon

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I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them. ↗

— Mary Decker

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The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity. ↗

— Olivia Goldsmith

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Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. ↗

— Patricia McCormick

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A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pitty in all the glittering multitude. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations. ↗

— Matthew Hayden

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