Pastoral Resources

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

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

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.

Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.