Quotes About Anticipation

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

In my imagination you're waiting lying on your side with your hands between your thighs.

If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.

He stood looking out past the certainty of the empty porch, but he couldn't imagine his father standing anywhere else. It was like listening for the phone to ring, wanting it to ring so badly you convince yourself that you can feel the person on the other end of the line, feel them dialing your number, but then you wait and wait, and it never rings.

Silas was tired of living in a world where everyone and everything held its breath.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

For the last twenty years I feel as if I have been waiting for my life to happen between the pages of a book, the book I am reading while I wait to arrive at the destination I am destined for.

I wonder how long it will take to dry.

I keep brooding on whether I shall reach the age of my father and brother, or even that of my mother, tortured as I am by the conflict between the desire for rest, the dread of renewed suffering (which a prolonged life would mean) and by the anticipation of sorrow at being separated from everything to which I am still attached.

It was more than knowing or not knowing, beside stillness and shouts, memory and images of the future.

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

I'd closed my ears to my friends' horror stories about married life. "Ha! Now you get to argue about who should change the diapers." Or "What kind of food makes a woman stop giving blow jobs? Wedding cake!" Or "Oh boy, wait until she hits menopause." I paid no attention to any of that. "Just let me stumble into it," I told them. "I don't want to be forewarned.

Imagine an external intelligence studying the methods by which earth-born creatures of various types adjust themselves to future circumstances. The most primitive method is, I suppose, no more than simple nervous reaction. The most developed method involves reasoned expectation. And between these two extremes our supposed observer would see a long series of intermediate forms melting into one another by insensible gradation.

It's better to be pleasantly surprised than disappointed

I am a very zone-specific person. For example, if I put all the pieces of a puzzle together, it's done, so there is nothing to look forward to.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

The quarter finals is always an exciting round because you know you're one match away from that one table situation: where the magic really starts to happen at the Crucible and where it starts to come into its own.

I think when you come off the bench, you know you're going to play, but you don't know really when, what time in the game, what quarter, so it's kind of different.

That's the key to defending any quarterback: to make them throw before they want to throw.

I like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all that stuff that's important when it comes to playing quarterback.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

I would look straight back at the quarterback thinking the ball's coming straight to me... and as soon as I looked back, the ball's going right over my head.