Jerry Garcia
Musician
"Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!"
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Expecting
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Simon Sinek
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?"
Jane Austen
Novelist
"but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
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"Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard."
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"You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse."
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"Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else."
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"At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it."
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"Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting."
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"Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning."
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"I don't know anything about you, so when you randomly come up and grab my ass, this isn't a friend doing it. It's like, "Who the f### is doing...? I was not expecting that.""
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"Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results."
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"Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise."
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"I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy."
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"I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear."
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"When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude."
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"Give, expecting nothing there of."
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"I'm not angry. Everybody thinks I'm so angry because I have a point of view. They're expecting me to just be all Smucker's Jam."
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"To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten."
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"It really reminds me of the great movies of the 30's and 40's with huge sets and voluminous fireplaces you could walk around in. Glazed floors. I was expecting a Busby Berkley dance number. Big fanfare and all the girls coming out. I'd have joined in. It's got that scale, you know?"
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"Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere."
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"When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest."
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"I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with."
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"Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it."
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