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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

~Bear Grylls

Topics: Disaster Else Expectations Life Live Recipe Someone You

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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Black Black Or White Break Disillusionment Expectations Governance Gray High Land Leaders Life Live Maintain Must Order Paradoxical Paved Real Rules Setting Streets Them Up Where White You Your Yourself

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I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

~Beck

Topics: Any Expectations Grammy Had Hoping Never Praying Set Something Starving Winning

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I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.

~Behati Prinsloo

Topics: Bad Bad Way Day Expectations Happens Learned Live Plan See Way You Ahead

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We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.

~Ben Carson

Topics: Because Change Disadvantaged Elevate Expectations Find Individuals Know Life Lower May Might Much Need Off Particularly Reason Rung Say Seen Short Start Those Ways Who You

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The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: About Company Expectations Hardest Hardest Thing Just Life Like Lot Many People Running So Many People Starting The Hardest Thing Thing Things Want Who You

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I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

~Ben Stiller

Topics: Actor Allow Comic Dramas Expectations Find Good Like Me More People Role Upset Will Would

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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: Expectations Go Mad People Perception Please Then Trying You

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There's so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically, people expect us to always look right, to have a certain etiquette - to talk a certain way and act a certain way - and to know certain things. It's all different expectations, but there are always expectations.

~Bibi Bourelly

Topics: Act Aesthetically Always Certain Certain Things Certain Way Different Etiquette Even Expect Expectations Geared Girl Judgment Just Know Look Much People Physically Right Talk Things Toward Us Way Young Young Girls

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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

~Bill Bradley

Topics: Accountable Against Elicit Expectations Held Make Speeches Which Will You

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