Quotes About Anticipation

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

I mean, I'm pretty sad that I have to leave all of my home friends and I can't see them for basically half a year. That's not a great thing, but we'll FaceTime and stuff. What I'm excited for is to be on the set with all the 'Stranger Things' cast.

There is only one act of violence in 'The Strangers' and it comes at the very, very end... the movie could have worked just as well if we didn't see it, in my opinion.

Well after 'Fast Car' was so huge, everyone was asking me, 'What's the next song?' At the time I just had ideas I was working on, but it was very clear I needed to finish another song ASAP, and that's how 'Perfect Strangers' came about.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

People said, 'When the Russians come, they will give us gas, double our pensions and make our life better.

The first climb won't be for another thirty kilometers, at Les Vignes. I'm longing for it, just like when I'm doing it I'll long for it to be over.

them growing, and now he was certain that she felt it too. She was as keen to be close to him as he was to her. It felt a little awkward in the company of the others—he'd invaded their group, after all, and he couldn't shake the feeling that Curt had brought him along as a potential fix-up. But he couldn't deny the effect she was having over him. He only hoped she'd brought a bikini. He

Nothing is more obsolete than yesterday's vision of the future.

maybe it explodes. No reason to think it will, except for the way a lifetime of consuming fiction makes me associate countdowns with things exploding.

The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow.

The silverfish's antennae blurred with anticipation, and its legs began tap-tap-tapping on the floor, like an excited little dog getting so worked up it was going to start peeing any minute.

If the plane you fly has a true airspeed of 120 to 180 knots, you need to be thinking about weather at least 120 miles to 180 miles ahead of your present position. That means the conditions you'll face at least one hour in front of your present position should be carefully considered now.

The third and final point is to anticipate an EFC time from air traffic control all the time. If the controller does not issue an EFC to you, request one as soon as possible. You may need that time should your communications radio fail after receiving your clearance. The expect-further-clearance time sets the occasion for the next steps to take should a radio failure occur.

waiting on line

When I wake up in the morning, I'm thinking to myself: What can I do to be ready for that moment, which is coming? That propels me out of bed.

we would always think: 'Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The

Losers react, leaders anticipate.

Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The metaphor I think of the most—because it's simple—is the dog chasing the car. What does the dog do if he catches the car? He doesn't have a plan for it. So I find it just as often on the entrepreneurial side. People don't plan for success.

I wish I would have known that there was no need to wait.

I've learned an important trick: To develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight.