#expectations

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!... ↗

— Charles Dickens

#great-expectations #melancholy

...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”... ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#expectations #l-m-montgomery

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#expectations #experience #founded #images #memories

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#easy #expectations #great #low #low expectations

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to. ↗

— Johnny Bench

#expectations #had #high #i #i always

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#because #become #depressed #dominated #emotions

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#day #discovers #displays #each #ever

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#expectations #life #madness #philosophy #thoughts

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different. ↗

— Bruce Bennett

#different #expectations #needs #vastly

Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol,' but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it. ↗

— Bo Bice

#expectations #goes #going #hard #hard work