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Barack Obama Politician
Expectations

"I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp down expectations. If you listen to my stump speeches, if you listen to what I said at Grant Park, I kept on saying, "Look, this is not just about me, this is not going to happen in one year, or one term, or even one presidency." And we tried to layer into everything we were saying a sense of hope, but also realism."

People Years Expectations
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Expectations

"I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering marriage with the highest set of expectations that humans have ever brought to the institution. It was really good to find that out. It doesn't have to be the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the moon and the stars - it can just be the moon. It's enough that it just can be what it is."

Stars Moon Expectations
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Denise Morrison Business Executive
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"Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of your life, how you integrate them is how you find true happiness."

Inspiration Perfect Expectations
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Charles Dickens Novelist
Expectations

"We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart."

Thinking Heart Expectations
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Confucius Philosopher
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"If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations."

People Expectations Punishment
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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
Expectations

"Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?"

Important Fall Expectations
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Viola Davis Actress, Producer
Expectations

"Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are."

People Jobs Expectations
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Expectations

"For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows you to admit the existence of the Devil. If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God."

Mean Expectations Epilepsy
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Expectations

"I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness."

Men Attitude Expectations
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Glenda Green Artist
Expectations

"Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender."

Heart Love Is Expectations
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Guy Browning Writer
Expectations

"What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they've already been buried for some time."

Children Expectations Soulmate
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Expectations

"...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it."

Fashion Expectations Revenge
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Expectations

"We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It’s disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire."

Fire Media Expectations
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May Sarton Poet
Expectations

"How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time."

Hard Work Expectations Smallest
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