If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Interpretation
Expecting little can lead to pleasant surprises.
This quote by Malcolm Forbes suggests that having low expectations can make one more receptive to unexpected outcomes. When you do not hold a strong anticipation for a particular result, you leave room for surprise, thereby allowing even the smallest positive outcomes to bring joy and satisfaction.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life's uncertainties.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.
The ocean can be yours; why should you stop_x000D_ Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?_x000D_ The secrets of the sun are yours, but you_x000D_ Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.
The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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