Quotes About Anticipation

We grow up believing that what counts most in our lives is that which will occur in the future.

Robert Galvin says that creativity consists of anticipation and commitment. Anticipation involves having a vision of something that will become important in the future before anybody else has it; commitment is the belief that keeps one working to realize the vision despite doubt and discouragement.

Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning?

With expectation, we're waiting for something specific that we want to happen, and we'll be disappointed if it doesn't. With expectancy, we release our own agenda in a person's life, allowing changes to happen that we can't control.

Anticipate the day as if it was your birthday and you are turning six again.

Most of the time you don't know how close a dream is to coming true, until after it has.

Always speak of the past, gratefully. Of the future, excitedly.

Always, something wonderful is brewing.

Proverbs 22:3: "A wise man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.

You know, when you wait for something you really want, it makes it even more special when you finally get it.

You gotta be prepared for something, pal. No matter how much you think you're doing the right thing, life can still take a wrong turn on you.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success.

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill." ? Mike Royko

As the car goes its way, some people seek escape from the necks by staring at the progress-meter above the door—the light that hops from one number to the next. A glance is all that is necessary, but some riders follow the progress, floor by floor, trying to guess where it will stop next. A few—probably habitual readers—spend the time reading the city inspection permit above the control panel.

If you wait on luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

softening the hard ground for the coming

Sve budu?nosti imaju jednu veliku vrlinu: nikad ne izgledaju onako kako ih zamišljaš.

O que surpreende um homem hoje deverá surpreender, algum dia, toda a humanidade

Why had he come? When would he go? It was his way to appear then disappear, and as she boiled water for their tea, she thought, I could turn around and he could be gone.

More than anything, she was afraid of running into him. Yet it would be worse, she thought, never to see him at all.

The stupid heart could not help but hope.

These vines will be blooming by summer don't you remember? It's just the bones of the garden you're looking at right now." I thought of the trumpet vine and honeysuckle that would green and flower; the jasmine that would sweeten the air, its perfume drifting in the windows of our home.

I think that's the lesson of this story: you never know what is going to happen.