Quotes About Expectation

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

He contained two equal sorts of knowledge: the warm lazy knowledge that above on the mountain a blond girl in a white dress waited for him, shy and eager; and the cooler knowledge that this was unlikely and the good of climbing was the exercise and view from the top. There was no conflict between these knowledges, his mind passed easily from one to the other, but when he stood up to begin the last of the climb the thought of the girl was stronger.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.

There is nothing that is more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different

I love to travel but hate to arrive.

Szale?stwo: wykonywanie tej samej czynno?ci bez ko?ca i spodziewanie si?, ?e da to odmienne rezultaty.

you create severe anxiety when you jump from inclination to "musturbation.

people undertake some new task not because of a challenge, but because of the assumed absence of a challenge because the task looks easy…and then, once they are stuck with it, they have willy-nilly to overcome the unsuspected difficulties—and sometimes they even succeed.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the new world?

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfillment?

Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in which all fleas will have been eliminated and doghood will finally have achieved its full glorious potential

Mary looked at the picture for some time without saying anything. Indeed, she didn't know what to say; she was taken aback, she was at a loss. She had expected a cubist masterpiece, and here was a picture of a man and a horse, not only recognisable as such, but even aggressively in drawing.

But somehow something kind of went wrong on the way between the wanting and the saying. And then the doing seemed to go just as wrong as the saying. She always wanted to do things excitingly, romantically, like in a play. But you can't make things be exciting and romantic, can you?

I drank to the imminent of His Coming, he repeated, with a sincere attempt to feel that the coming was imminent; but the eyebrow continued to haunt him, and the Coming, as far as he was concerned, was horribly remote.

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fufilment?