Quotes About Anticipation

Wird man nicht immer wieder zum jungen Mädchen, wenn man losläuft, den Armen eines Mannes entgegen?

Almost any nightmare you can imagine can happen—and has happened—during delivery. You want to limit your exposure to this. You do it by taking all the time necessary to create a detailed, tested plan. Planning is relatively cheap and safe; delivering is expensive and dangerous. Good planning boosts the odds of a quick, effective delivery, keeping the window on risk small and closing it as soon as possible.

TAKE THE OUTSIDE VIEW

Finally, don't forget black swans. All projects are vulnerable to unpredictable shocks, with their vulnerability growing as time passes. So the fact that the delivery of your one huge thing will take a very long time means that it is at high risk of being walloped by something you cannot possibly anticipate.

There's all these people waiting, like waiting for something is enough to make it happen. That's the future, having something to wait for. I'm glad I don't have a future then. I hate waiting.

et le bon temps viendra.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

It's always a bad sign when we start thinking in numbers,' Joseba had said to me once, apropos a poem he was writing. 'When we're about to lose something good or something we really love, we start to count: only another so many days, we say. And the same thing happens when we're in a situation we don't like: we start to calculate how many days until the end. In either case, thinking in numbers is never good.

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

You're always nervous at the beginning, the first pitch. You get a little tense. When the game starts, then it's all right.

when we are open to face the true value of an object or person, we can sometimes be disappointed!

unhappily, my wife is expecting me in connection with a fish

Here's another change I've noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It's what you can't see that you hope you will see, what hasn't been that might be.

I'd have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can't ask your parents such questions. You have to wait for them to tell you what it is that will happen next...

memoir is the life we have been waiting for.

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

Pete opened the cellar doors.

We mostly see what we have learned to expect to see.

Friday, Mrs. Brisbane

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Don't show the monster too much at the beginning." —Roger Corman, 1997

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Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.