Quotes About Anticipation

I'm reaching toward something in a dark room. But I'm excited.

And the third is from him: "Second date?" I immediately text him back: "Hell yeah!" Then I collapse on my bed and enjoy that "butterflies in the stomach" feeling. I've felt the butterflies before from time to time, but this is the first time I haven't sort of wanted to attack them with a flyswatter.

Theano: Always expecting the worst, you are. Danae: If you expect terrible things, then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.

day; I sniff the air and can almost smell summer. I love spring, not in its own right, but because it's the predecessor to summer, my actual favourite season. I have learnt that anticipation is genuinely a gift. Hot days slow my blood and heal my bones.

So try this nightmare exercise: Imagine disaster. Ask why you failed; list all the possible reasons. Then do your best to counter those mistakes before they have a chance to occur. Most launches die from self-inflicted wounds. It means that if you're willing to take a clear-eyed look at the forces seemingly conspiring to derail your next launch, you'll probably find that the most powerful factors are actually under your control.

Even as his mind was imagining her clothes being slowly stripped away while his lips kissed the sweet, tender skin as it was revealed.

I'd not felt so much as a pinprick of foreboding or dark premonition about what lay beyond the curve of time.

I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books.

The Black Eyed Peas as a whole is something I always look forward to.

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

I can see when people's minds are wrong. You can see when a footballer's going to miss a penalty.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

With Dr. Dre, he's a perfectionist. A lot of people ask why 'Detox' is taking so long. It's because Dre is somebody that is trying to top what he's done. Will he do it? I don't know if he ever will, but I respect that he's trying to do so. You have to wait for a masterpiece.

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.

When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.