If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star whatever that means you might be setting yourself up for failure.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years it's a failure.

I have a lack of fear whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway I have great expectations for the future but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

With 'Good Will Hunting ' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

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.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

The traveler was active he went strenuously in search of people of adventure of experience. The tourist is passive he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

It is important to expect nothing to take every experience including the negative ones as merely steps on the path and to proceed.

Let us be about setting high standards for life love creativity and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Is it not rather what we expect in men that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure which a just pride ought to discard.

If history repeats itself and the unexpected always happens how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

When I look at my daughter who's 24 she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois as well as around the Nation are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

To compete in a global economy our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality we must give students the tools they need to succeed including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

In these days it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.