Quotes About Anticipation

we sometimes imagine dark futures just to scare our own pants off.

The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future. As one philosopher noted, the human brain is an "anticipation machine," and "making future" is the most important thing it does.2

Surprise tells us that we were expecting something other than what we got, even when we didn't know we were expecting anything at all.

Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double the juice from half the fruit.

Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double

The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.

The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future.

Anticipating regret can sometimes steer us away from the best decision and toward the decision that most shields us from regret—as you'll discover again when you return to the office.

The future is coming faster than most people realize. —MICHAEL CRICHTON

being more open and letting go of judgment and anticipation expands our awareness of all the vicissitudes of life.

While many different animal species have nervous systems that enable anticipation of events—for example, learning that a flashing light is associated with a reward in a conditioned learning experiment—planning for the future seems to be a prefrontal invention.

We don't choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don't think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week.

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is.

It is important to know what audiences might expect from their genre movies, but I think it is also important to not give them everything they want. As a viewer, I think it can get pretty boring that way.

To all of our viewers out there - expect the unexpected.

Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation.

With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.

I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.

I was really looking forward to the release of 'Villain.' I put in a lot of hard work, and I am glad people are noticing basic things - like how I synced perfectly with the Malayalam dialogues or that I came across as a Malayalam girl - makes me feel wonderful.

There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.

I do not think our security will ever be so effective that we can catch every bad person at the border, nor do I think we can expect our local law enforcement officers to anticipate and stop every violent crime or terrorist act.