Quotes with expectation

  • I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
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  • Jack Kinder High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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  • Robert Anthony Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • François Fénelon All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Eric Hoffer Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Blake Farenthold Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Alan Dundes Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Bryan Singer I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Atom Egoyan I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Horace Life is largely a matter of expectation.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bill Buford Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • William Hazlitt The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Billy Collins The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Seneca The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Beth Simone Noveck The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • William Congreve Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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