Quotes by Expectations I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again. Al Gore candidatesplansexpectations I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad. Alaa Al Aswany slaveifsexpectations William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it. Alain de Botton achievementprideexpectations He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan. Alain de Botton depressingexpectationsmean It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity. Alain de Botton company-we-keepcuriosityexpectations We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected. Alan Armstrong investinglinesexpectations Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. Alan Dundes progressexpectationsimpossible That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church Alan Green expectationspeoplethinking 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 ignoranceexpectationsreality If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations. Alan Loy McGinnis good-thingsexpectationspeople I didn't listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn't let it enter my brain. It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that. When you are in charge of a top club, where expectations are high you have to deal with that. Alan Pardew expectationsjobspeople I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting. Alan Rickman defyingdoneexpectations I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations. Alan Thicke degreesexpectationsclever Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on. Alan Watts circlessurvivalexpectations Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated Alan Watts like-lovelightexpectations Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce. Albert Bandura outcomesselfexpectations Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact Albert Bandura impactemotionalexpectations I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship. Albert Belle expectationsgameswinning I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. Aleksandar Hemon dilettantestemperamentexpectations I never worried about teams who spend what they want to spend. It never bothered me. At the moment we have a lot of Middle Eastern owners, we have American owners of course, Russian owners. It never bothered me one bit. All I was concerned about was that we at United maintained our level of expectation, be competitive, be at the top part of the Premier League. Alex Ferguson teamleagueexpectations«1234567891011»
