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Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality. -- Jacque Fresco
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. -- Ed Smith
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. -- Ralph Marston
I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual. -- David Kay
Expectations create and shape reality. -- Debasish Mridha
If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed. -- Terrell Owens
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. -- Jodi Picoult
There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations -- Jodi Picoult
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality. -- Cathy Guisewite
Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. -- Stephen Covey
I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved. -- Seth Godin
Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed. -- Samuel P. Huntington
The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities. -- Jane Roberts
Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality. -- Steven Redhead
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. -- Erich Fromm
... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations. -- Deepak Chopra
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations. -- Jodi Picoult
We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it. -- Holly Sprink
The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations. -- Ashwin Sanghi

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