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expectation
«The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better»
«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
«The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality»
Author: Marya Mannes
(Writer)
| Keywords:
diminishes, expectation, greed, intensity, romantic, The Romantic
«War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
better off, expectation, well-off
«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
«We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
disappointed, expectation, expecting, gratified, gratifies
«Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.»
Author: William Congreve
| About:
Expectation,
Uncertainty
| Keywords:
chase, discovers, expectation, insipid, overtaking, possessing, The Chase, uncertainty
«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