Expectation Effect Quotes

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of life.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

Placebos work.

Shampoo doesn’t have to foam, but we add foaming chemicals because people expect it each time they wash their hair. Same thing with laundry detergent. And toothpaste—now every company adds sodium laureth sulfate to make toothpaste foam more. There’s no cleaning benefit, but people feel better when there’s a bunch of suds around their mouth. Once the customer starts expecting that foam, the habit starts growing.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.