Quotes About Anticipation

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

So," I said at last, staring at my hands. "How's, uh, your car?" "I left it out on the street. Figured it'll be fine there while I'm gone.

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

I was going to buy my girl a Packard car for Christmas, but it took too long to deliver, so I bought her some handkerchiefs.

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

We may run into Kevin," Lucy said gloomily. "She's hoping to run into Kevin," Zoë assured her. Justine smiled grimly. "Preferably with my car.

Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

Thinks that it is a poor sort of life that has not known expectation, the pleasure of savoring ahead. So enjoy it while you have it, he tells himself.

Matt only knew that he was entirely happy, wholly in love, and that years of this rolled ahead, waiting for him.

But the rubber bubble was about to burst.

You already have the capacity to travel through time. Simply wait for the future to arrive.

The camera observed me, but there was nothing in my bag except a pashmina, purse, and Lorazepam. I carried emptiness. Doors opened. Another camera recorded my progress. Doubtless there were thousands of my days repeated thus, interred digitally in limbo. I ascended two steps with nothing to look forward to

They had sat here, in this very room, their knees almost touching, and there had been a sense of almost breathless discovery, and while they had not become lovers everything was laid out, like a feast, and they were merely arranging the table decorations and putting out the place names, the final little touches, so that when the feast began it would have been a splendid thing, not only satisfying to the baser appetites but to the higher senses.

From the look of things, in five minutes every building facing the square would be locked up tighter than a Romulan clam.

Fore-runners

If you expect the worst, you can only be suprised

A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

The earlier changes are discerned, the earlier the opportunities they create can be converted into innovations.

A well-managed plant, I soon learned, is a quiet place. A factory that is "dramatic," a factory in which the "epic of industry" is unfolded before the visitor's eyes, is poorly managed. A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.