Quotes About Anticipation

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

we can get the most from the technologies when we "listen" to the direction the technologies lean, and bend our expectations, regulations, and products to these fundamental tendencies within that technology.

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

I don't have to write to South West buddy. In an hour South West gonna come looking for me!

He lowered the blinds too, enough to give him cover should one of Brabham's people choose to look out of the window. And then he settled in for the wait.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

To read all these stories and more, you will have to wait till I am dead and a suicidal publisher decides to print them.

As he walked the eight miles to where the Sea Venture lay docked, passing from his old life to his new, it would have been perfectly natural for him to wonder if he would ever again see the bustling, civilized city of London with its crowds and theaters and taverns and good food and, of course, his friends at the Mermaid and his family.

...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

SOMETIMES I THINK we know on some level the person we're going to be in our life, that if we pay attention, we can piece out that information.

This is to remind me of the best day of my life." She looks down at me. For a wonder, she smiles back. "When was that?" she asks. "Tomorrow," I say.

I smiled. He looked like he was waiting

It was nearly time for Ruth's examinations.

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Tomorrow is a hope, never a promise.

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

Do all men kiss like that? (Rowena) I know not since I have never kissed a man. (Stryder)

I feel like a weed in the midst of Winter. 'Tis the sunshine of your smile that will bring back the Spring of my days. We arrive in four days. I hope you will grace me again with your presence. Yours, Morgan (Morgan's letter)

God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey is she had her way.

I believe you said earlier, Miss James, that an ounce of prevention– (Morgan) Is worth an army of pistols. (Serenity)

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.