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I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected. ↗

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'. ↗

— Colin Powell

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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #attempts #because #birth #break

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#both #business #civil #civil service #control

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amount #audience #communicating #denying #exist

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#did #expect #happy #how #i

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#big #cheering #course #create #ear

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. ↗

— Ron Paul

#diseases #expect #gets #government #must

I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way. ↗

— Stuart Pearce

#i #life #lived #me #my life

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #deeper #digestive #discovery #expected