Quotes About Anticipation

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong.

We've won it. It's going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things.

The branches and leaves move with each light breeze as if it were expected, were what had been waited for all this time.

It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't end that way.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future.

dopamine is not about the happiness of reward. It's about the happiness of pursuit of reward that has a decent chance of occurring.

In other words, dopamine is not about the happiness of reward. It's about the happiness of pursuit of reward that has a decent chance of occurring.*

This explains context-dependent craving in addiction.93 Suppose an alcoholic has been clean and sober for years. Return him to where the alcohol consumption used to occur (e.g., that rundown street corner, that fancy men's club), and those potentiated synapses, those cues that were learned to be associated with alcohol, come roaring back into action, dopamine surges with anticipation, and the craving inundates.

Schultz's group has shown that the magnitude of an anticipatory dopamine rise reflects two variables. First is the size of the anticipated reward. A monkey has learned that a light

So dopamine is more about anticipation of reward than about reward itself.

Dopamine is not just about reward anticipation; it fuels the goal-directed behavior needed to gain that reward; dopamine "binds" the value of a reward to the resulting work. It's about the motivation arising from those dopaminergic projections to the PFC that is needed to do the harder thing (i.e., to work). In other words, dopamine is not about the happiness of reward. It's about the happiness of pursuit of reward that has a decent chance of occurring.fn50,99

Es war ihm beim Zustandekommen dieser unerwarteten Lösung einre jener außer der Regel liegenden Gedanken zu Hilfe gekommen, von denen man nicht sowohl sagen könnte, dass sie erst dann entstehen, wenn man sie nicht mehr erwartet, als vielmehr, dass ihr überraschendes Aufleuchten an das der Geliebten erinnert, die längst schon zwischen den anderen Freundinnen da war, ehe der bestürzte Freier zu verstehen aufhört, dass er ihr andere hat gleichstellen können.

But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down.

In other words, dopamine is not about the happiness of reward. It's about the happiness of pursuit of reward that has a decent chance of occurring.

What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and won't be enough tomorrow.

I'm due for a promotion in three months.

A la gente le da tanto miedo perder, que de todas formas pierde antes de jugar"

He's been waiting for me to get fed up?

and now I did not even have my Saturdays to look forward to.

Forty-five minutes went by

As the dinner neared an end

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.