Quotes About Anticipation

Give me a cuckoo clock and a Sep Winner's Self-Instructor for the Banjo, and I'll join you.

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal.

Critics are eager to discover a new voice. For some reason they're just as eager to be disappointed by a second novel.

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

I plan to approach my future as one of great promise.

the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in love.

Mnogo je toga u životu, vjerojatno je tako, ali ti, eto, ?ekaš. Ovako to meni izgleda: stvari koje bih želio da se dogode potrebno je dugo ?ekati, a kad se i dogode, ne dogode se onako kako sam ih ja zamišljao i o?ekivao; kao da su se sve urotile protiv mene: dolaze polako, polako, a dok se sna?eš i pogledaš, ve? su i prošle.

would very much like to see you. We await your company at supper on May 19.

I wait and wait, as though something is going to happen, as though someone has promised to come, as though the world could show me something new...

Why do we allow anticipated joys to blind us to those that are close by

Our eyes are so focused upon the future, upon some goal in the beyond, that we do not see the beauties and the glories all about us. Our eyes are not focused for the things near us, but those far away. We get so accustomed to living in our imagination and anticipation that we lose much of our power of enjoying the here and the now. We are living for to-morrow, to-morrow, and yet, When tomorrow comes it still will be to-morrow!

people. They do all their work three times over: once in anticipation, once in actuality, once in rumination. I do mine in actuality alone, doing it once instead of three times. This was by the intelligent exercise of Mr. Beecher's will-power in concentrating his mind upon what he was doing at a given moment, and then turning to something else. Any one who has observed business men closely, has noticed this characteristic. One

We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead.

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next.

They prayed for it, they want it, but when they got it, they complained.

Maybe not a home. Maybe that won't come until later. But I believe it will come, Mar. With your brains in this operation, how could it not?" Edimar

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.