Quotes About Anticipation

Todo aquel que haya leído una novela o haya visto una película sabe que la historia que no sorprende está muerta de antemano.

nada atrapa más rápido nuestra atención que la necesidad de saber qué pasará después.

Hay que introducir tensión entre la expectativa y la incertidumbre.

Cuanto más nos preguntemos qué sucederá después, más atención prestamos. Y cuanta más atención prestemos, más escucharemos, percibiremos y retendremos.

que nada atrapa más rápido nuestra atención que la necesidad de saber qué pasará después.

Hay que introducir tensión entre la expectativa y la incertidumbre. La tensión emocional nos induce a pensar que quizá la cosa vaya así, pero puede salir de otra manera, lo cual nos hace preguntarnos qué pasará luego.» Cuanto más nos preguntemos qué sucederá después, más atención prestamos. Y cuanta más atención prestemos, más escucharemos, percibiremos y retendremos.

The writers see where we're headed before the scientists do. What we discover in nature is not really a matter of what exists; what we find is determined by our ability to understand.

Where's tomorrow?

What I'd noticed was that here, in the windshadow of the mountain, it often smelled like rain. It might be raining up on the ridge, I might see the veils and rags of rain hanging down out of the scudding clouds, I might see shrouds of rain hauled over the country the way a fishing boat might drag a net, but—no rain here. A spatter, maybe, then nothing. Willy told me when I first moved in that it was like living in a strip bar. So close, looks so good and you never get laid.

People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.

When I [see] Christmas lights being strung . . . and Santa Clauses in the store windows, I [know] Thanksgiving [is] not far away.

The changeover from one medium to another presents both opportunities and challenges. New technologies empower us, to be sure; but never without some cost which we universally fail to anticipate. We must avoid celebrating the advantages too enthusiastically, lest we miss the meaning of the challenges. For once the changeover is complete, the opportunities and challenges fully assimilated, we will certainly be impotent to undo them.

Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”

You are also to say, ëLook, your servant Jacob is right behind us.í” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”

“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”

Siseraís mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ëWhy is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?í

The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”

Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.

So he called out and told the king. “If he is alone,” the king replied, “he bears good news.” As the first runner drew near,

As he was speaking, suddenly Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest arrived. “Come in,” said Adonijah, “for you are a man of valor. You must be bringing good news.”

And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”

Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.