#expect

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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We tend to get what we expect. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#get #tend

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#men #often #still #their #thumb

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#god #god has a plan #our #plan #share

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

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Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#almost #another #around #back #crashing

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

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Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path. ↗

— Anne Perry

#am #course #disappointments #easy #expected

It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect . . . You know, I'm in. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#am #another #around #been #certain

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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