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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.