Quotes About Anticipation

She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream, or dropping a letter in a mailbox. It was a quality he did not understand. It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see. He

After a minute they continue on, toward the nurses' station. "Hoping for a boy or a girl?" Patty asks. "As long as there are ten finger and ten toe," Ashima replies.

There had been a brittle quality to her, something unyielding, a young person who carried about her a premonition of old age.

I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going to happen, and the challenge for me as the actor is to make it work.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.

Business and leadership is about the future. What worked five years ago is unlikely to work tomorrow.

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.

For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.

Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.

Thinking about the future is the worst way of thinking about the future. Working on your future is the best way of thinking about your future.