Sentence examples for expectations thinking from inspiring English sources

Despite the recession, the students at my (rather elite, private, liberal arts) school surprise me with their high professional expectations (thinking that they should be wildly successful, even if they're worried they won't be) and their desire to change the world (many strongly identify as progressives who are concerned with social inequalities and political corruption).

What if you just want to fulfil your family obligations and expectations without thinking too hard about how you feel?

But it's a sign of Rhimes's influence that Nowalk has taken her lead, not merely in terms of numerical representation but in terms of head-butting audience expectations by thinking big and wild and strange.

According to Anheuser-Busch, the biggest spender on sports advertising, the leagues and networks have not fully adjusted their expectations on advertising, thinking they deserve the same premium even if ratings are falling.

We explored the limits of what's possible and pushed far beyond industry expectations and competitors' thinking and product offerings.

The anxiety becomes too much, the expectation debilitating, the thinking confused and stressed as past nightmares and future concerns kick in again, and the body freezes.

"But we can't let that weight of expectation dominate our thinking.

AS an abstract artist, Tim Lefens always viewed art as pure expression, liberated from fads, expectations, conventional thinking.

The problem doesn't lie so much with the likes of the National Employment Savings Trust or bog-standard stakeholder schemes where fees are generally low, but with those that date back many years and decades – the mists of time again – where fees were higher and predicated on unrealistic growth expectations (wishful thinking) of 7 or 9 per cent per year.

If the figures were weaker than or in-line with expectations, the thinking went, the market could bounce back in the wake of its sluggish performance ahead of the release of the report.

Various companies in both the specialty chocolate and specialty coffee realms also are working on getting both retail and wholesale customers to adjust their price expectations and to stop thinking of "farmers" as a homogenous group.