Quotes About Anticipation

When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

By using Kamb's level-up strategy, we multiply the number of motivating milestones we encounter en route to a goal. That's a forward-looking strategy: We're anticipating moments of pride ahead.

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count.

Stay alert to the promise that moments hold.

You have to back up your destination postcard with a good behavioral script. That's a recipe for success. What you don't need to do is anticipate every turn in the road between today and the destination. It's not that plotting the whole journey is undesirable; it's that it's impossible.

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count. Recall

The answer may sound strange: You need to create the expectation of failure—not the failure of the mission itself, but failure en route.

prospective hindsight" to work backward from a certain future—they are better at generating explanations for why the event might happen.

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

Did you ever think how monotonous your life would be if you could see all that was coming to you?

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

Just beyond your sight, life might be moving in ways that were moments away from being revealed to you.

Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.

For most long-term users, a substantial part of the high usually precedes the intake and uptake of drugs. Setting up the deal or, better, having the drugs in one's possession, produces a high sometimes more substantial than that produced by the substances themselves. Watching junkies set up a score is to witness a shift in behaviour and temperament much more obviously euphoric than what appears to come over them after they inject.

We were supposed to write why we're excited about the grand opening and, well, balloons are always my favorite part.

It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

There is nothing quite like opening an unfamiliar book that smells like a new memory about to happen.

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

I have such a lowered bar of expectation, and they managed to crawl underneath it. ~ Jon Stewart

the nest is agiggle with excitement.

They waited nearly two hours, but it was becoming increasingly clear that, for whatever reason, he wasn't going to show.