Quotes About Anticipation

he was supposed to be reading, but it was impossible. She had done something

Do not fight what you can see in front of you only, assume there is a battle to fight every where you face, so when you see the battle you won't be suprise

I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someone to really discover America and wail

I am waiting for the Last Supper to be served again with a strange new appetizer

I am waiting for a reconstructed Mayflower to reach America with its picture story and tv rights sold in advance to the natives

las acciones inmediatas a la luz de consecuencias que podía anticipar».

la palabra «estrategia» sigue siendo la mejor para expresar el proceso de ideas anticipatorias referidas a acciones dirigidas a conseguir nuestos objetivos de acuerdo con nuestras posibilidades.

Then it's not the past I yearn for, but the idea of a time when everything important has not yet happened: — Lawrence Raab, from section 5 of "The Uses of Nostalgia," What We Don't Know About Each Other (Penguin, 1993)

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

Breathless the earth seems waiting some wild blow, Dreaded, but far too close to ward or shun.

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

In order to succeed, it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to be is one day ahead of them.

We rarely control the timing of opportunities, but we can control our preparation

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

He brought over a gold box and opened it. Inside were chocolates wrapped in foil. Billy sat down close to me. "Life," he said, "is like a box of bonbons. Some dark with chocolate filling; some with cherries. But you never know till you open the silver wrapper what life holds for you." He held my hand and squeezed it. I squeezed back.

But McNamara knew more than the actual facts—he also knew the hypothetical ones. When you talked with him, you realized that he had already played out in his head the relevant details for every conceivable option and scenario.

The present is pregnant with the future.

Visualization works best when you feel totally relaxed. Only when you have a calm state of mind can you get clear, vivid images. Do your visualization in the quiet of your home or car before leaving for the party, the convention, or the big-deal meeting. See it all in your mind's eye ahead of time.

I left the Rocking Vicars, thinking I was going to be a star in my own right immediately. Everything was going to be wonderful and huge women would get a hold of me and do things to me with raw carrots – you know, shit like that. Of course, it didn't happen quite that way.

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

Waiting is one of life's hardships.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

There are many, many things that are difficult in this life, but one thing that isn't difficult at all is figuring out whether someone is excited or not when they open a present.

Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.