Quotes About Anticipation

I've literally had dreams of that moment since I was a kid, no joke, about stepping in for my first at-bat.

I always wanted to just stay 10 steps ahead of everybody. It's just been like that my whole life.

I was always trying to stay one to two steps ahead of the game.

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

I find myself working ten steps ahead of where I actually am on my laptop or keyboard, but I know what the ten steps are. I just haven't got to them yet.

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

We're looking at the court as X's and O's and plays that can happen, two three steps ahead of time. That's what the best point guards do. As you grow into a point guard that's what you learn, and eventually, you tend to grasp that.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

History, by appraising. ..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

I cannot wait to be dead. I cannot wait.

It all seemed so enticing, but like every other attraction along the world's midway the greatest part of its appeal lay in those moments of anticipation. And after it was all over, the particular attraction which had once promised so much would send you on your way unrewarded, purged of your curiosity and the poorer for being so.

I felt the kind of acute anticipation that a child might experience at a carnival, where each lurid attraction incites fantastic speculations, while unexpected desires arise for something which has no specific qualities in the imagination yet seems to be only a few steps away.

Wary of being caught unawares, we planned our parenthood, committed to trial marriages with pre-nuptials, and pre-arranged our parents' funerals—convinced we could pre-feel the feelings that we have heard attend new life, true love, and death.

They'd be sitting somewhere out of sight waiting for him to turn the key and blow himself into a hundred thousand spoonfuls of hamburger.

The enemy in retirement was that nothing you did seemed to cause you to look forward to anything. Weekends were the same as weekdays, and payday was just a notice from your bank that the check had arrived as usual.

klappt ihr Notizbuch zu und schaut aus dem runden Flugzeugfenster. Unter ihnen glitzert das weiche Abendlicht der untergehenden Sonne auf dem Atlantik. In wenigen Minuten werden sie in New York landen. Das hat der Pilot vorhin durchgesagt. Sprotte schnallt sich an und weckt den Siebzehnjährigen neben ihr. »Aufwachen, Fred, wir sind gleich da.«

If travel expands our experience and broadens our minds, the anticipation of travel helpfully narrows our reading list.