Quotes About Anticipation

Stop worrying about what can go wrong, and get excited about what can go right. Always remember that our future is filled with exciting possibilities that we get to take part in. We will rise to our expectations, expect that great things will happen. As ships go out to sea, they don't look for the storms, they look forward to the catch.

The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.

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I always loved twilight: it was the only time I had the feeling that something important could happen.

Don't think about happiness. If it doesn't come, there's no disappointment; if it does come, it's a surprise.

Not until later did he realise he had never before seen her anywhere, yet it was somehow as if he had been awaiting her for a long time

So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,'Engaged'. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables marked 'Reserved": the glance, slightly discontented, passes on at once.

We do keep looking ahead to things as if they'd finish something, but when we get to them, they don't finish anything. They're just part of going on.

The Commission pressed Churchill: when did he imagine that this would be

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Tomorrow thinks not of the cares of today.

Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get." Robert A. Heinlein

The biggest needle movers will be things that customers don't know to ask for," he would write years later in a letter to shareholders. "We must invent on their behalf. We have to tap into our own inner imagination about what's possible.

When the car reached the front of the house, Stan shifted into park and turned off the ignition. The crickets eased up. Myron almost waited for someone to note that it was "Quiet" and for someone else to add, "Yeah, too quiet." Stan

Neither man argued. Greg stared out the window at the house, probably conjuring up unspeakable horrors. Myron's left leg started jackhammering. It often did when he was tense. Stan reached for the door handle. That

He said he'd see you soon . . .

Grace wanted to slit open the envelope now. There was always an excitement with a newly developed roll of film, an opening-a-gift expectation, a hurry-to-the-mailbox-even-though-it's-always-bills rush that digital photography, for all its conveniences, could never duplicate.

Get this, we played Condom Roulette like the old days. Ever play? Every guy guesses a color—there's Hot Red, Stallion Black, Lemon Yellow, Orange Orange. Okay, the last two are jokes, but you get the point. There's this condom dispenser in the bathroom. It's still there! So each guy puts a buck on the table. One guy gets a quarter and buys a condom. He brings it to the table. You open it and whammo, if it's your color, you win!

So now what? Kick down the door . . . and then what? Find an old lady in a weird white dress and demand she explain her whack-a-doodle rants? Maybe she had gone upstairs. Maybe Bat Lady was now getting ready for her loony day, changing out of her white dress, heading to the shower . . . Ugh.

The key was preparation. That was what separated the good from the great. The greats covered their tracks. The greats prepared for every eventuality.

downstairs, she heard

bought a very used Oldsmobile Ciera so he could drive the four-plus hours to see Marianne every weekend. The drive seemed interminable. He couldn't wait to sprint out of the car and into her arms. Sitting

He had discovered the scents and aromas of a spring that was eternally one day away.

Now, this not only means seeing the troops are fed, clothed and housed properly (the easy part), but more importantly, training them to perfection, anticipating their problems and needs while actively anticipating and eliminating problems before they occur. Among other attributes