Quotes About Anticipation

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

From my youth, I'd never stopped thinking in the future tense.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

It's so crazy to see people singing along to songs that aren't even released yet. I'm like, 'How do you even know the lyrics? Have you been watching YouTube?'

Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six months or you're about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you've said 'no' to many things 'cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens.

The key to a good horror movie is what happens between the scares. The scares aren't the tricky part. If you're involved in what's going on in between, the scare is going to trick you. If you're not, the best scare in the world will not be scary.

Ever since I was 15, I've tried to act and talk as if I was a public figure because I was sure that I would be one day and wanted to be prepared.

When we lose the ball, I don't want to win it back directly. I act smarter now, have better anticipation, and also start earlier when somebody tries to lob the ball over me.

I'll be in a cadence, and I'll start to see one thing that a defense is starting to do, I'm like, 'I saw that two months ago on film.' And then that triggers whatever call you need to make.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

There's nothing worse than not being excited about a trip.

One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.

I used to see Triumph TR7s and E-Type Jags, and I used to think, 'One day, I'm gonna have one of those.' I remember seeing an E-Type and walking round it 40 or 50 times.

I'm getting excited before every single game. The trophy at the end is less important than the process itself.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.

The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.

One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.

Trust me - he will be back. I promise you, at some point CM Punk will be back involved in wrestling.

The truth is, as you know, people like us look at what's happening in the world, and then we project it forward. We think, 'If I know A and B, then I've got to know that C and D are coming,' and that's kind of the way it's been with my fiction.