Quotes About Anticipation

We're always skating to wherever the puck is going.

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted - we should become disruptors ourselves.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!

'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

I really don't sit here and dream what life in the White House will be like. I just can't go beyond the point when the people go to the ballot box with all that power.

My business is to prevent the future.

After every move, ask yourself what does my opponent want to do to me, and how can I prevent it?

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

You're as good as your next game, not your previous, so I'll focus on the next one.

For me, being able to be prepared for a lot of things is something I take pride in.

I thought I would be Prime Minister.

I'm going to be a dad in a couple of weeks and by the grace of God, He's allowing me to see this moment and I can't wait. I think about it every day. My fiance and I have pillow talk about it every day, all day. I rub her belly, I'm blessed and I can't wait for my little princess to get here.

I'm in a privileged position, but I still feel like the best is yet to come, and people still haven't seen the best of me yet, and that is so exciting for me.

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.