Quotes About Anticipation

In 2004, I don't think any Silver Jews fan was probably expecting another record.

For me in a horror film, just looking down a long corridor and seeing somebody standing there, the simplest thing in the world, has a really seismic impact to me.

she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

Dienekes says the mind is like a house with many rooms," he said. "There are rooms one must not go into. To anticipate one's death is one of those rooms. We must not allow ourselves even to think it.

Figure out where you want to go; then work backwards from there.

she doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in anticipation of its apparition.

There's always something else. That's what makes life so much fun.

I made a stop, ducking into the supermarket to pick up milk, Diet Pepsi, bread, eggs, and toilet paper. I was into my siege mentality, looking forward to pulling up the drawbridge and waiting out the rain. With luck, I wouldn't have to go out for days.

We didn't know what would happen next: that was our great gift. The gift of youth. The thing we miss, it seems to me, no matter what we've made of our lives, as we get older. When we do know what will happen next. And next and next, and then last.

She had read the same sentence over and over, and each time she lifted her eyes to look at Graham, he was always there, looking back at her. The wait had seemed endless to her, but finally the lights blinked off and on several times, and the store began to empty out.

Everything I wanted to say would have to wait, and I'd go back to the same suspended animation I'd been in before.

I hope for everything.

The days he was away crept on tiny, unhurried feet.

Every battle is won before it's ever fought.

Be where your enemy is not.

Deep knowledge is to be aware of disturbance before disturbance, to be aware of danger before danger, to be aware of destruction before destruction, to be aware of calamity before calamity. Strong action is training the body without being burdened by the body, exercising the mind without being used by the mind, working in the world without being affected by the world, carrying out tasks without being obstructed by tasks.

Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him.

Every battle is won before it is fought.

When you go out the door, be as if you were seeing an enemy." And Shi Li said, "Be prepared, and you will not be defeated." When

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not

Thus,  what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is FOREKNOWLEDGE.