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Quotes About Anticipation

I want to be around when Newcastle win a trophy because I want to see this place lift off. It will be one hell of a party for a long time.
~ Alan Shearer
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you.
~ Ko Joon-hee
The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.
~ Kurt Elling
What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
~ Alfred Whitehead
I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.
~ Arca
One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.
~ D. H. Lawrence
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
~ Kevin Kelly
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
~ Kevin Kelly
When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.
~ Mario Lemieux
To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.
~ Mark Helprin
I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.
~ Paolo Sorrentino
If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.
~ Ian Bogost
The good news is I have time.
~ Jim Courier
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.
~ Anita Desai
I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.
~ Donald E. Westlake
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
~ Dorothy Gilman
So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.
~ Julie Powell
I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.
~ Julie Walters
You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.
~ Merrill Markoe