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Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
Christopher Miller
Happiness
Life
Key
Low Expectations
Expectations
Low
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
Shannon Miller
Myself
Me
People
Other
High
High Expectations
Had
Expectations
May
Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.
Thomas Becket
Man
Joy
Wait
Everything
Tests
End
Expectations
Which
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. Edwards Deming
You
Light
Nothing
Competitor
Else
Only
He
Him
Knows
Nonsense
Led
Expect
Expectations
Tire
Customer
Asked
Your
Electric
Electric Light
Ever
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
Amy Tan
Time
Me
Parents
High
High Expectations
Kindergarten
Had
Very
Expectations
Expected
Get
Straight
If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.
Andrew Forrest
Attitude
Saying
You
Heart
Money
Problems
Low Expectations
Fact
Throw
Bleeding
Look
Exercising
Always
Issues
Expectations
In Fact
Low
Hard
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
Benedict Cumberbatch
You
People
Perception
Please
Mad
Go
Expectations
Trying
Then
I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
Bong Joon-ho
Love
Time
Hate
Try
Feeling
Complex
Destroy
About
Betray
Thrill
Excitement
Also
Genre
Make
Audiences
Expectations
Same
Same Time
Placed
Urge
I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.
Brett Young
Time
Good
Down
Say
Always
Been
Expectations
Managing
Really
Let Down
Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
People
Own
Universe
Approach
Ways
Also
Expectations
Different
Different People
Different Ways
No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.
Donella Meadows
Government
Goals
Wake Up
Insist
Nation
Action
Resolve
Way
One-Way
Drifting
Only
Only One Way
Results
Outrage
Higher
Tension
Performance
Between
Wake
Up
Expectations
Get
Intention
Stop
Low
Standards
I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
Eddie Huang
You
Yourself
People
Way
Define
Like
Understand
Labels
Expectations
Them
Certain
Certain Way
Need
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Natural
Progress
Some
Exceeded
Bound
Course
Arouse
Sciences
Limits
Times
Expectations
Modern
Any
May
Suspicion
Modern Times
Much
Natural Sciences
Suggestion
Building up expectations, creating unrealistic time frames, feeling like our end goal is the end all, be all can all lead to frustration or anxiety. We end up feeling as though we have to power through what we want rather than enjoy the process and just let the result come as it may.
Gretchen Bleiler
Time
Anxiety
Frustration
Result
Power
Feeling
Building
Enjoy
Our
Frames
Though
Rather
Unrealistic
Through
Lead
Come
Like
Goal
End
Up
Than
Expectations
May
Just
Want
Process
Creating
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
Ibrahim Babangida
Leadership
People
Opportunity
Meet
Our
Our People
Must
Economic
Lifetime
Economic Opportunity
Open
New
Fair
Fair Chance
Democratic
Majority
Truly
Up
Expectations
Committed
Being
Fulfilled
Stand
Aspirations
Nigeria
Nigerians
Chance
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
James Geary
Matters
Because
Metaphor
Expectations
Creates
Mobile devices, high-speed data communication, and online commerce are creating expectations that convenient, secure, real-time payment and banking capabilities should be available whenever and wherever they are needed.
Jerome Powell
Communication
Secure
Data
Online
High-Speed
Devices
Mobile
Commerce
Expectations
Banking
Convenient
Whenever
Wherever
Available
Capabilities
Creating
Should
Payment
Needed
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
Mary Douglas
Injustice
Disappointment
Prosperity
Promises
Increasing
Say
Perceived
Dashed
Tends
Over
Go
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Yes
Expectations
Unfairness
Kept
Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
Michael Landon
Mind
Dream
One Thing
Dreaming
Towards
Self-Defeating
Very
Expectations
Working
Thing
Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone.
Mike Posner
Work
You
Yourself
Be Yourself
Just Be
About
Friend
Ambiguous
End
Up
Upfront
Expectations
Get
Just
Just Be Yourself
Your
Hard
Play
Zone
Desires
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
Richard M. DeVos
Life
Meet
Our
Respond
Outlook
Tends
Shape
Itself
Expectations
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.
Robert Sternberg
You
People
School
Low Expectations
Thought
Three
First
Stupid
Think
Case
Had
Years
Tests
Expectations
Did
Any
Low
Poorly
Teachers
Who
There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it's very hard to meet those expectations. That's been a big stress in my life.
Shawn Mendes
Life
Me
Stress
My Life
Hype
Big
Build
Meet
Those
Been
Up
Very
Expectations
Hard
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
Vladimir Kramnik
Beauty
Situation
Believe
Every
Rules
He
Mastering
Chess
Contradict
Expectations
Situations
Senses
Which
Succeeds
Creating
Player
A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.
Adi Godrej
Good
Follows
Policy
Historical
Expectations
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Numbers
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
Adlai Stevenson II
Revolution
Live
Rising
Era
Expectations
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