Quotes about Expectation
I am going to be pretty intolerant of behavior that demonstrates an absence of trust, or a focus on individual ego. I will be encouraging conflict, driving for clear commitments, and expecting all of you to hold each other accountable. I will be calling out bad behavior when I see it, and I'd like to see you doing the same. We don't have time to waste.
— Patrick Lencioni
A restaurant can afford to serve the occasional burnt dinner. But in technology, you cook one thing and that's what everyone eats. So any difference between what people want and what you deliver is multiplied. You please or annoy customers wholesale. The closer you can get to what they want, the more wealth you generate.
— Paul Graham
I am surprised how difficult for people is to say I love you. They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear I love you too back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave
— Paulo Coelho
I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
— Paulo Coelho
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
— Paulo Coelho
Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.
— Paulo Coelho
With every farewell comes a hidden hope.
— Paulo Coelho
Everyday was another day spent waiting. Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would recognize her true worth.
— Paulo Coelho
If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
— Paulo Coelho
Be blessed. And just as you are transforming your own life, may you transform the lives of those around you. When they ask, do not forget to give. When they knock at your door, be sure to open it. When they lose something and come to you, do whatever you can to help them find what they have lost. First, though, ask; knock at the door and find what is missing in your life. A hunter always knows what to expect - eat or be eaten.
— Paulo Coelho
And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them.
— Paulo Coelho
it is one thing to get used to something, another to be satisfied.
— Paulo Coelho