Quotes About Anticipation

You must be able to forecast the Flow. You must have a Flow Plan that helps you gain a clear vision of what's out there next month and the month after that.

In that moment Bastian made a profound discovery. You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

She is determined to learn to anticipate her worst bouts of psychosis, and head them off before they overwhelm her. I'm trying to recognize when it's coming on, she says, so I can get out of the way or at least drop to the ground like you would when caught in the crossfire of a shootout. (233)

Mostly what you had was on the agitated side of half-sleep, you thought you were sleeping but you were really just waiting.

Anyway the thing I remember most about that night was the way that we unbuttoned and unzipped each other's clothes, the way that we tore each other's clothes off, and how that was even more exciting than unwrapping presents.

He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally

The power of an imagination can arise from what it refuses to foresee.

human imagination is a poor tool for judging risk. People are really good at responding to the crisis that just happened, as they naturally imagine that whatever just happened is most likely to happen again. They are less good at imagining a crisis before it happens—and taking action to prevent it.

On the Psychology of Prediction

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome.

You have to stay ahead of the public road map." The minute investors understood what you were doing, they held you in lower estimation.

In Danny and Amos's working theory, the paradox was now resolved differently. It wasn't that (or at least not only that) people anticipated regret when making a decision in the first situation that they did not anticipate in making the second. It was that they treated 50 percent as more than 50 percent and saw the difference between 4 percent and 2 percent as far less than it was.

What could go wrong?

Spivey was a worrier. He thought that when a person took risks, the thing that went wrong was usually a thing the person hadn't thought about, and so he tried to think about the things he wouldn't naturally think about.

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally everything you do you're trying to predict the right thing.

There is nothing like the ticker tape except a woman – nothing that promises, hour after hour, day after day, such sudden developments; nothing that disappoints so often or that occasionally fulfills with such unbelievable, passionate magnificence.

The note took long moments to fade and, when it had at last died away, there was an absolute hush over the world, the milling millions were still, there was an air of expectancy. And then the White Lords came.

Caravaggio was constantly diverted by the human element during burglaries. Breaking into a house during Christmas, he would become annoyed if the Advent calendar had not been opened up to the date to which it should have been.

Solo quiero que sepas que aún no te echo de menos. —Ya llegará.

Sólo quiero que sepas que aún no te echo de menos. —Ya llegará.

But I'm a nostalgic with a fascination for the future.

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Alas, most of the time I inhabit a near-future tense, my psychic thermostat set to a low simmer of anticipation and, too often, worry. The good thing is I'm seldom surprised. The bad thing is I'm seldom surprised.