Quotes About Anticipation

Look wider and think further ahead" must be your motto.

No days unalert." Nothing should catch you by surprise because you are constantly imagining problems before they arise. Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan's happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that might emerge in it. The further you see, the more steps ahead you plan, the more powerful you become.

Do not show all your cards. An air of mystery heightens your presence; it also creates anticipation.

war was long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.

If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.

Why didn't you guess this would happen? Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. Light, Elayne said. You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.

And for some reason, men and women who told the tale often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm is coming, they said, staring southward in worry. The storm is coming.

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

We must be back in Shadizar by tomorrow night, and we have matters to settle, you and I, when this is done." "I will look forward to it," Bombatta snarled. "And I," Conan said, starting forward again, "will look back upon it.

If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant." "I

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

Taim will have to wait

There's always something new from you,' Perrin growled. 'Can't you tell us what to expect once in a while, instead of explaining after it happens?

Also, I was beginning to tire of waiting for the lightning. If it was going to strike, let it strike.

Bir sava?? kazanman?n ilk ve en önemli kural?, düÅŸman?n?n ne yapaca??n? bilmektir.

Siempre debéis prever lo peor, hijas; de ese modo, todas las sorpresas que recibáis serán agradables.

He could almost hear the growling chuckles stifled in their throats while they waited for him.

quietly as they waited. Mandarb danced in circles

A trap isn't really a trap if you know it's there," he said absently, bending the end of one of the severed wires a little to line up better with its mate. "If you know it's there, maybe you can see a way to walk in so it isn't a trap at all.

Lo que me preocupa es que el futuro ya haya llegado.

They lived with the intensity of two people aware that change would come. And when it came, it would come quickly; so there were things to talk about which could not be avoided any longer.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.