Quotes About Anticipation

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

I hesitate, I suppose it is only from a general dread of company. We all of us wish for it, in our solitude, but on the eve of a great visit, we shudder.

live always with your eyes cast forward, to seek what will be, for the path behind can never be retaken.

That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it—that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.

want it and expect it, it will be yours very soon. However, it is not often that you have

If you want it and expect it, it will be yours very soon.

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.

A smart rabbit doesn't wait until the hounds are on her tail before she digs her burrow.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

Now it's different, and to me it was shockingly humble, but there with my girl in my arms and our child in her belly I knew I had reached the moment my life had been waiting for. I was going to be a father and a husband. I spanked her bottom and cranked up the tunes.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

Olhos postos na terra, tu virás no ritmo da própria primavera, e como as flores e os animais abrirás nas mãos de quem te espera.

Last summer the plant was larger than ever. The vines ranged up to the roof on a trellis I had made. I anticipated more roses than ever. But I was disappointed. The blossoms were small and scrawny.

Happiness" is the feeling you have just before something goes wrong.

It was pointless to worry about problems I didn't yet have.

L'attesa é lunga, Il mio sogno de ti non é finito (The wait is long, My dream of you is not ended)

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

Passava molto tempo a fissare il vuoto, oppressa da un senso di attesa. Ma attesa di che cosa? Non lo sapeva.

She hadn't had many lovers but the men she'd been with in the past had convinced her that sex was like a box of chocolates—you never knew what you were going to get when you went to bed with a man. And

It does matter," Lauren said earnestly. "My mom always says that everyone just needs three things to be happy—something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love." He

My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I am released.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.