I’ve been getting some bad publicity – but you got to expect that.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn’t happen.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.