Quotes by Expectations If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension. Anthony Hopkins resentmentkindexpectations Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good. Anthony Hopkins low-expectationsexpectationslows I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything. Anthony Hopkins phonesexpectationsbook Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations. Anthony Hopkins resentmentacceptanceexpectations I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins." I looked around, because I really thought Nick Nolte would get it. I really thought Nick would get it. I was very surprised. It was neck and neck with Nick Nolte and myself. So I really was expecting that to happen, and I went in there without any expectations. Anthony Hopkins necksoscarsexpectations I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it. Anthony Minghella notebookexpectationswriting The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'. Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart progressexpectationsscience You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere. Antony Hegarty expectationsmeanneeds The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up. Anuj best-timesgiving-upexpectations There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds. Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook thaiexpectationsmight That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. Archibald MacLeish atheismexpectationsideas True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them. Arlene Croce geniusacceptanceexpectations No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto. Arlo Guthrie mottojudgmentexpectations No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, millennia of evidence also indicates that needed attempts to stabilize such societies run counter to the expectations of the populace and of interest groups. For that reason, such attempts at stabilization frequently fail. Arthur Demarest growthexpectationsrunning Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets. Arthur Nersesian romanceexpectationswriting To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again. Arthur Schopenhauer expectationslongpast Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive. A.S.A. Harrison expectationsfeelingspeople Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked. A.S.A. Harrison coupleacceptanceexpectations I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged. Asghar Farhadi expectationsgamesfacts The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations. Ashwin Sanghi disappointmentexpectationsreality«1234567891011»
