Quotes About Anticipation

market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

One thing I had learned in high school was that in sports you always had to move in a direction that your opponent did not expect. From Ping-Pong to prizefighting, the man with the unexpected moves was the player most likely to win.

Hector's smile was the anticipation of another man's pain. Primo

Most of human life is defined by waiting

Le donne sono serissime quando devono dare un bacio, gli diceva Coy. Ridono per tutto il tempo, ma quando arriva il momento del bacio sono come un gatto che vede qualcosa muoversi nell'erba alta.

I could imagine a life in a world maybe a hundred years from now where my ideas and some man's might be the same.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

volume—as long as you anticipated, as we did in 1972, a world of continuous inflation.

The future arrived here a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed. Because that's how the future always arrives. You don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.

The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

It's been so long, i'm afraid to get laid now! I got so much internal pressure built up that i'd probably blow a hole in a woman the size of my fist!

I always entertain great hopes. —Robert Frost

prevent difficulties rather than solve them.

You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future—or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be "better.

He rapped on the glass. She looked up from the board, put the iron aside, hesitated, then came forward slowly, uncertain, peering to see who it might be. (This is the Student Raskolnikov.) He tapped again to reassure her.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

Never worry about tomorrow, Charlie Brown. Tomorrow will soon be today, and before you know it, today will be yesterday! I always worry about the day after tomorrow!