Quotes About Anticipation

Buying ahead of requirements does not pay. Any wins are negated later down the line.

So it has come at last—the Distinguished Thing.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Because information is so accessible and communication instantaneous, there is a diminution of focus on its significance, or even on the definition of what is significant. This dynamic may encourage policymakers to wait for an issue to arise rather than anticipate it, and to regard moments of decision as a series of isolated events rather than part of a historical continuum. When this happens, manipulation of information replaces reflection as the principal policy tool.

Since it is impossible to be prepared for all eventualities, the assumption of the opponent's perfect flexibility leads to paralysis of action

At KKR, we devote a great deal of time, attention and creativity trying to dissect, understand and anticipate change with the goal of achieving consistently strong returns for our investors.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

My mind and I had a meeting, and we came to the conclusion that you're going to let us down. We are here every minute of the day getting ready for the let down. So when you push me away, I'll just say ok, because we came to that conclusion a while ago. Like I said, we were ready for the let down.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

He was always in a hurry to get where he was not.

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

It is said that one swallow does not make a summer, but can it be that because one swallow does not make a summer another swallow, sensing and anticipating summer, must not fly? If every blade of grass waited similarly summer would never occur. And it is the same with establishing the Kingdom of God: we must not think about whether we are the first or the thousandth swallow.

He had known at the bottom of his heart that he would see her here today. But to keep his thoughts free, he had tried to persuade himself that he did not know it. Now when he heard that she was here, he was suddenly conscious of such delight, and at the same time of such dread, that his breath failed him and he could not utter what he wanted to say.

Can't you go tomorrow?' she said. 'No, I can't! The business I'm going for, the warrant and the money, won't have come by tomorrow,' he replied.

Noticis ir tas, ka es gaidu ciemi?us, un es nemaz negaidu ciemi?us, un nekas nav noticis, bet es l?dzu j?s aizbraukt

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that however it may end there will always be people to say: "I said then that it would be so," quite forgetting that amid their innumerable conjectures many were to quite the contrary effect.

Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms came together and crowded in the large drawing-room by the door of the ballroom.

Three days after

He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected.

A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it's time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I'm wanted at the traffic-jam. They're saving me a seat.

I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.