Quotes About Zero Expectations

#1. I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.

Shailene Woodley

#2. Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

Brian Sandoval

#3. I know, I know - you're a woman who's had a lot of tough breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten those brakes, but you'll have to stay in the garage all night.

Groucho Marx

#4. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]

Stephen Hawking

#5. Because she was very much his lover, even if they'd never been skin to skin. The idea of being with any other woman after he met her had simply been out of the question.

Nalini Singh

#6. The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.

Louis Bachelier

#7. Just being here is more than I deserve. There is no way you would fail to meet my expectations, they have been shattered in the face of the beautiful reality that is you.

Alanea Alder

#8. The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.

Christina Romer

#9. When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Stephen Hawking

#10. There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Kevin Smith

#11. We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters.

Sam Hamill