One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history–or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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Jane Austen
Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.
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Steve Maraboli
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
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Patricia McCormick
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]
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Stephen Hawking
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
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Brian Tracy
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Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world...
I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song.
It's a bit like sympathetic magic in a way: the usual Western presumption that 'primitive' rituals mimic what they desire to achieve--that phallic objects might be believed to increase male potency and playacting rainfall might somehow bring it about. I am suspicious of such obvious...
Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.
