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  • Remember that an artist's life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its own disciplines. I learned and adapted to my search. I expect nothing from you. Question the truth of anything you confront. How does it apply to yourself and the trail you are pursuing?

    Artist   Discipline   Doe  
  • The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

  • Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

    Hate   Men   Vices  
  • If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

  • Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything.

    FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Apr 10, 2013
  • - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.

  • Hope for everything, expect nothing.

  • If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

  • When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

    "A Road to Success, Lined With Friends". www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2012.
  • Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

  • Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

    Dream   Real   Desire  
  • Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

    Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.189, Macmillan
  • Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

    Twitter post from Feb 13, 2012
  • For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

  • When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

    Light   Air   Water  
  • Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

    Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.134, Ballantine Books
  • If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

    Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.206, Penguin
  • One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.

  • Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything.

    Children   Magic   Trying  
  • Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.80, Xist Publishing
  • Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

    "Fictional character: Vincent Crummles". "Nicholas Nickleby", www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open to everything is what makes wonderful things happen. If I don't worry, there's no obstruction and life flows easily. It sounds impractical, but 'Expect nothing; be open to everything' is really all it is.

  • I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.80, e-artnow
  • My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

    Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage
  • Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

    "Jules Olitski: 'Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate'". Artsy Interview, www.artsy.net. April 8, 2014.
  • Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

  • Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

  • What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

    Degrees   Bulls   Mouths  
    Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The drapier's letters (cont.) Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. Sermons”, p.148
  • If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.

    Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Homecoming”, p.10, Hachette UK
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