To avoid being disappointed, avoid placing your expectations on others. Love lets them be who they are and it allows them to react the way they want to react.
Don't just expect the scouts to find you. Go to camps, clinics and make sure you are seen.
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?
Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.
In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn’t expect to end up with the chicken.
The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.
Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.
People tend to say, 'You're not as fat or as ugly as I expected.' I never know how to reply. It's a bit of a slap, but they don't mean it, I'm sure.
There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.
'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.
Oftentimes people expect Christians to be perfect but the reality is...Spiritual perfection is imperfection! God then does His best work.
Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.
It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.
I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers.
When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.
Many companies expect loyal customers without providing loyal service. This has been the visionary failure of countless corporations.
You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.
