Top 30 Quotes About Expectations Versus Reality

#1. Expectations create and shape reality.

Debasish Mridha

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#2. When expectations exceed reality, frustration is the result.

Jeffrey A. White

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#3. Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

Baltasar Gracian

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#4. You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.

Seth

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#5. Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...

Alan Greenspan

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#6. Living is a constant process of debunking our romantic notions of how our personal life will unfold. Reality oftentimes fails to meet a person's glamorous expectations.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#7. I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.

David Kay

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#8. What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.

Holly Sprink

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#9. Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

Callie Hunter

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#10. But stranger than that was the feeling he had, that everything had been worth it, that all his miseries were going to end, that he was going to a life that would be as good as, perhaps better than, anything he had read about in books.

Hanya Yanagihara

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#11. Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

John C. Maxwell

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#12. Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it's better. Sometimes it's worse. And sometimes it's just different. It's not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Abby Rosmarin

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#13. Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

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#14. A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.

Graham Greene

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#15. Yet again I was reminded that the way in which things and events unfold does not always coincide with our expectations. Indeed, this fact of life - that there is often a gap between the way in which we perceive phenomena and the reality of a given situation - is the source of much unhappiness.

Dalai Lama XIV

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#16. Julie Czerneda's inner editor says, 'One day her expectations will meet reality and actually get along.

Julie E. Czerneda

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#17. The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.

Daniel Kahneman

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#18. A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Jodi Picoult

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#19. If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

Terrell Owens

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#20. My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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#21. I ask you to keep in mind that you will be disappointed only to the extent that your desires or expectations fall out of harmony with reality.

Jim Bainbridge

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#22. Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

Ed Smith

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#23. Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.

Seth Godin

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#24. She gave me a philosophical lecture ala "Course in Miracles", where reality is a reflection of one's attitude and expectations.

Mark Heying

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#25. Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

Tullian Tchividjian

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#26. The range of our knowledge of reality is limited by our pre-existing beliefs, assumptions, and expectations

Cynthia Sue Larson

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#27. A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#28. One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

Stuart Pearson Wright

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#29. The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.

Robert Neelly Bellah

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#30. Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Stephen Covey

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