Quotes About Anticipation

an ending must be both "inevitable and unexpected.

Turning Points fail when we overprepare the obvious and underprepare the unusual.

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

We were prepared for the window of opportunity

Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

imagina como es saber que algo horrible va a pasar pero no saber cuando

Of course I long for her, but in honesty I must say that I would rather long for her than have her continuously present. Travel agents assure us that 'getting there is half the fun'; I might say with at least equal truth that longing is some of the best of loving.

including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly--

There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.

who could scarcely remember to put one foot in front of the other when she walked; with the sudden, brutal urgency of a long and terrible wait ended.

he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line.

I DREAMED. I dreamed as if the dream was waiting for me

Stuff doesn't happen till you're ready for it. She laughed, and it was a real laugh. Only in theory. Tell me, what were your first cinnamon rolls like? And didn't the recipe look simple and pure and beautiful on the page? And the instructions your teacher gave you, before he left you to get on with it, were perfectly clear and covered everything?

Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.

I observed the signs of impending doom

Life is lived out on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

life favors the prepared mind.

believe that life favors the prepared mind.

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

Another of Keaton's strategies was to avoid anticipation. Instead of showing you what was about to happen, he showed you what was happening; the surprise and the response are both unexpected, and funnier. He also gets laughs by the application of perfect logic.

The movie teaches us how action is the enemy of suspense—how action releases tension instead of building it. Better to wait for a whole movie for something to happen (assuming we really care whether it happens) than to sit through a film where things we don't care about are happening constantly.

Karl Malden once said the hardest thing he ever had to do as an actor was act as if he didn't know he was about to be hit in the head with a beer can.

We got two gold-record singers and they don't sing? So? We got five Oscar-winning actors and they don't need to act much.

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then