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Letter "E" » expected
«Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.»
Author: A. Lou Vickery
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Keywords:
above,
All That,
a little,
bit,
bite out,
bit by bit,
crowd,
crowding,
crowd out,
Did,
expected,
four,
fours,
individuals,
lifted,
most successful,
on all fours,
short,
shorts,
Short words,
successful,
sum,
summing,
summing up,
sum up,
The Crowd,
the least bit
«I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.»
«Big things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small.»
«Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.»
«Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
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Physicist)
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Keywords:
aspiring,
avoids,
Buddhism,
characteristics,
cosmic,
covers,
dogmas,
expected,
Personal experience,
theology,
The Natural,
The Spiritual,
transcends,
unity
«A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
American elder,
anew,
behaved,
described,
elder,
expectations,
expected,
feed,
fights,
measurement,
measurements,
native,
Native American,
peoples,
reflected,
replied,
sensibly,
struggles,
tailor,
tailored,
tailoring,
The Tailor,
wins
«A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
come round,
expected,
fit,
fit in,
hole,
hole up,
modifies,
modify,
modifying,
must have,
right away,
round,
rounder,
rounding,
round up,
shape,
square,
squared,
squares,
The Holes,
Times Square
«A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes»
«How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Happiness,
Marriage,
Men,
Relationships,
witty,
Women
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Keywords:
As If,
being,
can,
expected,
happy,
her,
He Said She Said,
how,
human,
human being,
insisted,
insists,
make happy,
man,
More Than Human,
normal,
perfectly,
She,
to be,
treating,
were,
WHO,
with,
woman
«From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?»