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Expectation

«I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.»
«I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.»
«I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.»
Author: Lisa Shue (Actress) | About: Expectation | Keywords: anymore, beaten, expectations
«In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.»
«I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.»
«I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.»
«High expectations are the key to everything.»
Author: Sam Walton (Executive, Founder) | About: Expectation | Keywords: expectations
«I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.»
Author: Frank Sinatra (Actor, Singer) | About: Ambition, Expectation, Knowledge | Keywords: pass on
«I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.»
«It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation»

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