Quotes About Anticipation

Because maybe the surprise was hiding down there with a red ribbon on top of it.

Three meters. I felt a fresh adrenaline dump in my torso, my limbs. His partners must have seen his face. Their shoulders tensed, their heads began to turn. Two meters. The guy to my right was closest. He was turning to his left, toward whatever had made his partner start to bug out. I saw the left side of his face as he came around, everything moving slowly through my adrenalized vision.

He exchanged a few words with Washio, who looked around and then pointed at me. I had the sudden sense that this was more attention from Murakami than I really wanted. I watched him nudge his two men. The three of them started moving toward me. Adrenaline dumped into my veins. I felt the surge. I looked around casually, searching for a weapon of convenience. There was nothing handy. They walked up and stood in front of me, three abreast, Murakami slightly in front of the other two.

He smiled. "What's going on?" "Why does something have to be going on? Maybe I just missed you." He gave me an uncharacteristically streetwise look. I had a feeling I knew where he'd picked it up. "Yeah, I missed you, too." I wasn't looking forward to the turn the conversation would take when I brought up Yukiko, and felt no hurry to get there. A waitress came by. Harry ordered a coffee and some carrot cake.

She had been too excited to sleep deeply—from killing Barnett, of course, but even more because of everything that was going to happen next.

I hadn't expected her to follow this line of reasoning. I'm usually good at putting myself in the other person's shoes, anticipating his next move. But she had outplayed me on this one. Time to try to regain some initiative, give myself a second to think.

Because of a ubiquitous feature of human psychology, very little in life turns out quite as good as we expect it will be.

This is postdecision regret, regret that occurs after we've experienced the results of a decision. But there is also something called anticipated regret, which rears its head even before a decision is made.

simply by being aware of the process we can anticipate its effects, and therefore be less disappointed when it comes. This means that when we are making decisions, we should think about how each of the options will feel not just tomorrow, but months or even years later.

To these three comparisons I have added a fourth: the gap between what one has and what one expects.

Hedonistic distress come when experience fails to live up to expectations.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

But eventually, something will happen. Something always does. And when it does... I will come to Mother.

It was that kind of story. The kind that's like a sneeze which threatens but never quite arrives.

No need to live in trouble until trouble comes.

The woman from Room 217 was there, as he had known she would be.

the past is history, the future's a mystery

He waits. The time passes. It always does.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a gasp.

Most readers will probably have experienced instances of the rehearsal function of dreams. By dreaming about a significant, upcoming event in advance, we can try out various approaches, attitudes, and behaviors, perhaps arriving at a more effective course of action than we otherwise would have. We may also be forewarned of certain potential aspects in a future situation that we otherwise would not have imagined or considered.

It's here!' he shouted.

Things were going to get worse before they got better, and everyone knew it.

Planificar la salida nos resulta tan satisfactorio como el paseo en sí.

They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They begin with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.