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Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.