Quotes About Anticipation

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.

They say that foreplay for a woman is anything that happens twenty-four hours before intercourse.

One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.

One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.

We shall always be faced with the problem of how to plan for an unknowable future.

Somewhere along the way the hopes of something better had become the dread of something worse. News

Anticipated receipt of a fixed amount from life insurance proceeds represents a virtual fixed-income asset, suggesting a diminished role for bonds in an investor's portfolio.

Il eût fallu avoir peur de ce bonheur, peur de tout le malheur qu'il pouvait annoncer.

Le sommeil est un chemin qui mène à la soupe du lendemain.

To let knowledge produce troubles, and then use knowledge to prepare against them, is like stirring water in hopes of making it clear.33

Three Rules for When You Are Under Fire: 1) Always have a plan for what to do if something bad happens.

Chess is infinite and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponents wildest dreams will become reality.

The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.

This word would define the sensation of having worked and traveled hard, praying for good snow and fresh tracks, and then finding that weather, snow, timing, and camaraderie can come together into a single element.

12 seconds represents about as far ahead as you can see details. If you're not in the habit of looking that far ahead, then you should be working on that important technique.

1. Anticipate what's going to happen.

Two ways to increase your anticipation time are looking farther ahead and reducing speed in busy situations.

it's not only a matter of controlling the motorcycle you're riding but also controlling the situation around you.

Rider training instructors often suggest that a rider should be looking twelve seconds ahead, or the distance he or she will be covering over the next twelve seconds. That doesn't mean you should be focused only on what's happening at a point twelve seconds ahead. Instead, you should focus on everything that's going on within that twelve-second zone.

over-inflated expectations

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? —DR. SHERWOOD ROWLAND