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Letter "E" » Expectation
«For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give, is the worst kind of arrogance.»
«High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
achievement, expectation, framework, in a higher place, to a higher place
«Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian»
Author: Dennis Wholey
| About:
Expectation,
Justice,
World
| Keywords:
attack, bull, expecting, fairly, good person, treat, vegetarian, Vegetarians
«Anger always comes from frustrated expectations»
Author: Elliott Larson
| About:
Anger,
Expectation
| Keywords:
anger, comes, expectations, frustrated, frustrates, frustrating
«Beauty is everything. Love is innocent. A future with the perfect man is life.»
«Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.»
Author: Ralph Marston
| About:
Expectation,
Performance,
Reality
| Keywords:
expect, expectations, level, level best, lower, lowered, lowering, lowers, make it, performance, raise
«[It is a story] to satisfy the expectations of the average man, who wants awful things to happen to over prominent people.»
«Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Expectation,
Writers
| Keywords:
backward, Commissions, dared, down the stairs, first flight, flight, flight of stairs, jean, stairs, suit
«Ambition is the last refuge of failure.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ambition,
Expectation,
Failure
| Keywords:
refuge
«Good is not good where better is expected»
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