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Letter "G" » Great Expectations
«If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life? that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment? that would be the perfect state.»
Author: Cate Blanchett
(Actress)
| Keywords:
be on, brink, disappointment, excitement, expectation, Great Expectations, My Way
«To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Great Expectations, self respect, singular, singulars
«There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.»
Author: Kingman Brewster
| About:
Challenge,
Expectation,
Satisfaction
| Keywords:
expectation, Great Expectations, relying, vindicate, vindicated
«We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.»
Author: Marcus Bach, Dr.
| Keywords:
Above and Beyond, catch on, expectation, Great Expectations, guidance, moment of truth, permit, seemingly, self acceptance, self awareness, stirred, taken over, technique, unquestioning
«Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
enhances, Great Expectations, igniter, internal, jog, jogging, move around, moving around, organs, respiration
«It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.»
Author: Pamela Anderson
(Actress, Model)
| Keywords:
blonde, blondes, expectations, Great Expectations, low, surprise
«There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Hope,
Medicine
| Keywords:
expectation, Great Expectations, incentive, incentives, medicine, powerful, tonic, tonics
«The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
certainty, chance upon, delay, depend upon, expectation, Great Expectations, let go, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, uncertainty
«The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
Great Expectations
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