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

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.

Franklin Raines

Expectations

Inflation

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.

Mary Pierce

Winning

Expectations

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.

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

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

Bill Paxton

Expectations

Film

The biggest problems with movies are 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.

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

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

Expectations

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

Patricia Neal

Expectations

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

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.

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.

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

Joyce Maynard

Expectations