Less Expectation Quotes

#1. I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself.

K.L. Toth

#2. Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

David Hume

#3. He said he didn't like my kind and I was filled with the delirious expectation that he would identify me as a common species - that there were others like myself. I controlled my excitement, but he seemed to sense it - his gaze wavered uncertainly.

Steve Aylett

#4. Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Our expectation is that by 2050, which is a long time away, India will be the largest economy in the world, overtaking both the U.S. and China.

Adi Godrej

#6. The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

Cinda Williams Chima

#7. You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

Dee Henderson

#8. Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.

Tarthang Tulku

#9. You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

Lupe Fiasco

#10. This give-and-take prepares children for the expectation of relationship with machines that is at the heart of the robotic moment.

Sherry Turkle

#11. My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Faye Wattleton

#12. The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

Rachel Gibson

#13. Achieving what I set out to do: to feel that I was instrumental in starting a great new movement which could not only change the course of things for Humanity and the rest of Creation, but alter Man's expectation of surviving for much longer on this planet.

Donald Watson

#14. ...most people do not separate God from expectation.

Mette Jakobsen

#15. But then he'd lived long enough to expect the futility of ever expecting anything at all

Laura Barnett

#16. My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.

Edward Brooke

#17. The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation of calamity should alert us that groupthink is driving the movement.

Peter Lilley

#18. 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

#19. Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.

Sara Genn

#20. They stood by the open window of their hotel room with the rain sweeping into their faces. A bolt of lightning lit up the Grand Canal. Struck it out of the darkness in a searing eloquent flash. The expectation was that the night to come would be no less bracing, no less eloquent.

Glenn Haybittle

#21. It is less distracting in the silence," she said. "Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it waiting in expectation.

Tracy Chevalier

#22. Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.

Francis Quarles

#23. When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Catherine Deneuve

#24. The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

Andrew Weil

#25. My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

Kevin Kwan

#26. If appearance is only a trick of the nerves, and apparition is only a lesser trick of the nerves, a less perfect illusion, then this expectation, this sense of a presence unperceived, was not particularly illusory as things in this world go.

Marilynne Robinson

#27. In about an 18-month period, my mother got sick and died, and then I had a freak illness less than a year later and almost died myself. And I found in both of those situations that there was this expectation to have a kind of transformative experience.

Meghan Daum

#28. I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to do with where you were, and was more about who you were trying to be.

Nenia Campbell

#29. The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

Gloria Steinem

#30. Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Andre Maurois

#31. In my expectation that good fortune will lead inextricably to its reversal, I should note that I don't think I'm less deserving of happiness than anyone else; it is that in an unequal world, nobody deserves the privileges I enjoy.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#32. We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.

Matt Redman

#33. Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

Tony Robbins

#34. Care for your infant business or career as you would care for your infant child - with loving attention, with no expectation of any reward, being in the moment with it, accepting it as is, watching it grow, enjoying every step of the way.

Marc Allen

#35. Boys' connections - to other people and to their selves - can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.

Judy Chu

#36. From Love Under a Dark Sky:
In the universe vast
We share a simple feast
Among creatures equally earthbound.
Let us raise our hearts in gratitude,
Our eyes in expectation
Of a greater supper yet
In heavenly realms.

Shellie Foltz

#37. The unmet expectation is a root of resentment that damages many lives day in and day out.

Euginia Herlihy

#38. As women, we do feel like we have to live up to an expectation, whether it's on camera or going to the market or whatever it is. And the truth of the matter is, that's not always the way it is. We don't always have our high heels on, we don't always have our makeup on.

Jennifer Aniston

#39. It's never too late to try a new approach to learning anything, and just because one has no expectation doesn't mean one has no hope.

Stephanie Kallos

#40. If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#41. The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, 'you can keep on burning!

Dada Bhagwan

#42. You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

Stephen King

#43. Expectation is an anchor, a heavy burden every man is to first carry and then overcome if he is to ever reach the shorelines of his dreams.

Peter S. Fogg

#44. It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.

Criss Jami

#45. There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

James McNerney

#46. Hat sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Jane Austen

#47. A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

Oliver Ellsworth

#48. [Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.
[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]

Chapman Cohen

#49. One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of the ways to surprise the reader is to set up an expectation that you then veer away from it at the last moment. A stitch in time saves the penny earned. Or something like that.

Douglas Wilson

#50. Love and help others unconditionally without expectation you are creating in effect, this creation will multiply for you in a million ways.
Ana Maria Frith, Limitless: Change Your Life

Ana M Frith

#51. Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

Robert Fripp

#52. When this ultimate crisis comes... when there is no way out - that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.

Emile Durkheim

#53. The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

Agnes Martin

#54. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.

Osho

#55. I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I don't allow anybody's expectation to weigh on me. I have my own expectation of life. I believe in letting people be free.

Ester Dean

#56. Embrace each new day with great expectations.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#57. Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again

Seth Godin

#58. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner ...

Teju Cole

#59. A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.

Oprah Winfrey

#60. Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

Henry David Thoreau

#62. Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.

Lionel Suggs