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Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

Chris Shiflett
blessing expectations praise

There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

Chris Witty
riding pressure expectations
Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations... by Chrissie Hynde

Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.

Chrissie Hynde
realizing expectations trying

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

Christian Bale
kind expectations firsts

It felt like I was a bucket full of holes. Things kept going in but just as quickly, they'd drain out. So I had people telling me I was this and that and then I'd feel pressure to perform up to their standards, jumping through hoops so I could live up to their expectations.

Christian Hosoi
jumping expectations people

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

Christian Nestell Bovee
apples expectations way

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

Christina Romer
impact growth expectations

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

Christopher Hitchens
knowing expectations children

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

Christopher Peterson
self expectations believe

I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.

Chronixx
high-standards expectations people

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

Chuck Jones
degrees results expectations
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should... by Chuck Palahniuk

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Chuck Palahniuk
expectations life people

...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.

Chuck Palahniuk
falling-in-love pieces expectations

No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

Chuck Palahniuk
soon-enough expectations heaven

With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

Chuck Palahniuk
choices expectations years

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Chuck Palahniuk
expectations listening trying

He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire

Cinda Williams Chima
expectations desire people

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

Cinda Williams Chima
expectations mind reality

Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't write, you don't eat." We all want to be respected and appreciated, but when you get a big honor like winning the Pulitzer, people start to look for your work in a new way with higher expectations. Today, the best thing about having won is when I get a nasty comment from some internet troll I can remind myself of the Pulitzer and say, "Well, somebody appreciates me".

Clarence Page
expectations winning writing
The expectations of women are sometimes so unfair. by Clea DuVall

The expectations of women are sometimes so unfair.

Clea DuVall
unfair expectations sometimes
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