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I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created. -- Michael Gove
I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times. -- Trent Dilfer
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. -- Tavis Smiley
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined. -- Michael Gove
Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again. -- Joshua Ferris
No one rises to low expectations -- Les Brown
I'm the master of low expectations. -- George W. Bush
The soft bigotry of low expectations -- Michael Gerson
Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good. -- Anthony Hopkins
The secret to happiness is having low expectations. -- Warren Buffett
One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations. -- Gerald Chertavian
One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.' -- Gerald Chertavian
I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations -- Jonathan Kozol
Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating -- Wayne Dyer
It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. -- Pamela Anderson
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. -- Pamela Anderson
If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations. -- Chip Kelly
The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get. -- John C. Maxwell
The one thing I've always had going for me was people's low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me. -- Chris Isaak
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations. -- Susan Jacoby
The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations. -- Joel Greenblatt
When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it? -- Nora Ephron
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations. -- Tavis Smiley
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.' -- Tavis Smiley
If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations. -- Andrew Forrest
I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations. -- Peter Thiel
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. -- Robert Sternberg
When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The secret to happiness is low expectations. -- Barry Schwartz
Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations. -- George W. Bush
Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low. -- George W. Bush
The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity. -- Olivia Goldsmith
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Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low. -- Brad Meltzer
GREAT SECRET Whenever I'm learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high. -- James Marcus
The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done. -- Tamala Jones
I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut. -- Cristin Milioti
One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low. -- Glenn Reynolds
Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low. -- Behdad Sami
Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more. -- Scott Adams
I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations. -- Darynda Jones
If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low. -- George W. Bush
People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around. -- Nicki Minaj
If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all. -- Jeff Kinney
People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low. -- Kevin Smith
The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be. -- Allan Bloom

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