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"More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions."
"You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations."
"You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with."
"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."
"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
"March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy."
"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."
"Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation."
"We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
"A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another."
"You are still guided by your expectations."
"I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned."
"..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself"
"The threshold is the place of expectation."
"Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater."
"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love."
"The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see."
"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."
"One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely"
"To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return."
