Quotes About Anticipation

A premortem is an investigation into something awful, but before it happens.

Backcasting and premortems complement each other. Backcasting imagines a positive future; a premortem imagines a negative future. We can't create a complete picture without representing both the positive space and the negative space. Backcasting reveals the positive space. Premortems reveal the negative space. Backcasting is the cheerleader; a premortem is the heckler in the audience.

Quite often I would write down on a sheet of paper the date, the time, and "he's going to come," along with other sentences, fears—that he might not come, that he might not feel the same desire for me.

One cannot see the future of something learned.

Me habría gustado no tener nada que hacer salvo esperarlo.

Aujourd'hui, je sens réellement le temps reculer vers la réception de demain, c'est-à-dire m'emporter vers la vérité, que je lirai dans ses paroles et son comportement, sans que je puisse résister.

Il « devrait » appeler ce soir : en général, il le fait trois jours après la dernière rencontre. Mais le « devoir », la « régularité » n'ont pas vraiment leur place ici.

Monter en ville, rêver, se faire jouir et attendre, résumé possible d'une adolescente de province)

Soir. Et s'il avait envie de rompre ? Le fait qu'il m'ait dit le contraire le 29 novembre (un mois, énorme...) ne signifie rien. Ce soir, j'imagine la possibilité qu'il ne vienne pas du tout la semaine prochaine. À ce moment-là, avoir le courage de regarder les choses en face et de rompre, mais avec chic, en lui donnant son cadeau.

Le compte à rebours va bientôt commencer. C'est une véritable fête que j'ai préparée, champagne, feu de bois, et le cadeau d'adieu, une gravure ancienne du Moulin de la Galette. La seule façon de finir sans trop souffrir, faire de l'adieu une cérémonie

Écrire ainsi me remplit à nouveau d'attente, d'envie de lui. Entretient le désir. François Mitterrand : « La jeunesse, c'est le temps qu'on a devant soi. »

L'avenir est trop immense pour qu'elle l'imagine, il arrivera, c'est tout

The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday.

When you get these franchises with some built in profiles and anticipation... I think the anticipation and the buildup can can exceed the delivery.

Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.

My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.

I hate delaying a project that's already seen so many delays, but I have to go with my instincts on what I think will be exciting and interesting, and what I think the fanbase will really want to see.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

The thing that was most harmful was that there was always something that was about to happen. So I found myself indulging in the writer's luxury of doing another draft, another idea. If this project isn't happening, then I'll shelve one script and start writing another. And in that way, the years go by, and there's very little money coming in.

I never talk about my next project.

You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.