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.
I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
Donβt worry about achieving. Donβt worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.
But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.
One of the hallmarks of the team is this sense of looking to be wrong. It's the inquisitiveness, and sense of exploration. It's about being excited to be wrong, because then you've discovered something new.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
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