Quotes About Anticipation

When he shut himself in his apartment he found that he hoped he was waiting for nothing at all.

The mechanisms our minds use to anticipate the results of our actions are inadequate for coping with modern media.

You never know what the future brings.

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

If you wait long enough," he said, "people will surprise and impress you.

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively.

The past is constructed of memory, the future of expectation

They spend their weeks waiting for Work to go put on its Sunday clothes.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

My business is to prevent the future.

It's better to be prepared for that which does not come, than unprepared for that which does

Predicting the future is actually the primary reason that we have a brain.

the R&D department can't get them to work but because the timing is wrong. Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

inventar se parece mucho a hacer surfing: tienes que anticiparte y coger la ola justo en el momento adecuado).

we are constantly predicting the future and hypothesizing what we will experience. This expectation influences what we actually perceive. Predicting the future is actually the primary reason that we have a brain.

A veces uno tiene que esperar a que las cosas sucedan por más que intuya lo que podría suceder, porque si no, te toman por loco.

No necesito que sea bueno, me basta con que esté al otro lado".

[L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there.

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

Hindsight is expensive. Foresight is valuable.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

We must believe that he will come but never believe that he is come. There is no Messiah but an uncome Messiah.

In our business, it's hard to look at anything in retrospect and look at your accomplishments because you're so busy thinking about the next week. What we do is 52 weeks a year.