Higher Expectation Quotes & Sayings

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence. — Nicolas Cage

If our great view is upon those of the next, the expectation of them is an infinitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of the present. — Benjamin Franklin

The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers. — Jim Knight

Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim? — Abbey Lee Kershaw

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. — Henry Miller

If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable. — Michael Sandel

If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body. — Fuzzy Zoeller

It was not a matter of miracles. It was not an expectation of miracles, frivolous in its impatience. Alyosha did not need miracles then for the triumph of certain convictions (it was not that at all), nor so that some sort of former, preconceived idea would quickly triumph over another ... Again, it was not miracles he needed, but only a "higher justice," which, as he believed, had been violated
it was this that wounded his heart so cruelly and suddenly ... it was justice, justice he thirsted for, not simply miracles! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn't laugh. What would happen next? — Margaret Peterson Haddix

The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear. — Regina Doman

The man cocked his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back. — Gillian Flynn

I was an altar boy and a choir member. — Cheech Marin

Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard. — Tony Robbins

A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest. — Michel Foucault

You will learn that at higher levels of energy, our fields of prayer act very quickly to bring us exactly what we expect. If we fear, it brings to us what we fear. If we hate, it brings us more of what we hate. Thankfully when we go into these negative expectations, our prayer-fields collapse rather quickly because we lose our connection with the divine and are no longer outflowing love. But a fear expectation can still be powerful. That is why you must monitor your expectations carefully and set your field consciously. — James Redfield

One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format. — Steven McDonnell

Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others. — Victor Manuel Rivera

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse. — Wm. Paul Young

You know what you sound like? A jealous girl friend.
And how are things on Planet You Wish? — Meg Cabot

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews. — Jodi Picoult

Prayer is energy. Try to come from a higher, lighter vibration of gratitude and expectation, in place of worry and fear. — Susan Barbara Apollon

The Scholomance was a piece of Shadowhunter history come to life. A cold castle of towers and corridors carved into the side of a mountain in the Carpathians, it had existed for centuries as a place where the most elite of Shadowhunters were trained to deal with the double menaces of demons and Downworlders. It had been closed when the first Accords were signed: a show of faith that Downworlders and Shadowhunters were no longer at war. — Cassandra Clare

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation. — Tony Dungy

I buy food and gasoline - that's it. — Kat Dennings

He waited just a moment longer, giving them the opportunity to fill the space, to exceed expectation.

They did not. Adam had set the bar at precisely the height they could jump and no higher. — Maggie Stiefvater