Best Expecting Quotes

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That’s why it’s important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

One thing that I’ve found is that people could relate and see different qualities in the video that they enjoyed. That wasn’t something I was necessarily expecting.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win.

Stop expecting others to act first, be the one who makes a positive change.

Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature – and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

Now as a former welfare recipient, I don’t have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

Friendships aren’t perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

Certain things are done intentionally opposite – like there’s no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.

I’ve got some news… I’m delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

I know I’m capable of greatness, and I’m expecting to reach that level.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise,
He who defers this work from day to day,
Does on a river’s bank expecting stay,
Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone,
That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.

No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you’re perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

For the longest time, I was just playing music and not really expecting any success – just kind of doing it because I liked doing it. While doing that, I went on a lot of shitty tours, playing to nobody, so I think it makes me appreciate it. Our band the New Pornographers have been popular for a few years now, but it still shocks me. I remember thinking we were hugely popular when we sold 15,000 records, and now this one sold 30,000 in two weeks. I’m grateful for the whole thing.

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one’s love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting…that the loved one will turn to someone else.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U…!!!

At the end of the day, you just have to focus on winning. No one can take a win away from you. That’s what I focused on. Life is not fair, so I don’t go out there expecting it to be. I don’t think any of us should go out expecting life to be fair. I think that’s expecting too much, and I remind myself of that sometimes. You can get on with your life after that.

That’s what happens with most comedies. If you watch 10 minutes and there’s no joke, then you’re disappointed because you’re expecting jokes. The same goes for emotional movies. You have to feel something. If you don’t feel anything for 10 minutes, you get bored.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.

The burning bushes, the smoking mountains, . . . the Cumorahs, and the Kirtlands were realities; but they were the exceptions. . . . Always expecting the spectacular, many will miss entirely the constant flow of revealed communication.

Not to settle. If you’re not happy with a person, leave. And wait until you find that one person who makes you feel good about yourself every single day and is not expecting you to change, but to grow.

It really reminds me of the great movies of the 30’s and 40’s with huge sets and voluminous fireplaces you could walk around in. Glazed floors. I was expecting a Busby Berkley dance number. Big fanfare and all the girls coming out. I’d have joined in. It’s got that scale, you know?

As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we want and never expecting it not to be there, while still earning a regular rate of return. In a true free market, however, there tends to be a tradeoff: you can enjoy a money warehouse or you can hope for a return on your investment. You can’t usually have both. The Fed, however, by backing up this fractional-reserve system with a promise of endless bailouts and money creation, attempts to keep the illusion going.