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Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

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.

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.