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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
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It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
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Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
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Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
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People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
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The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.
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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.
We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014) -
The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
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There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108 -
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.
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