Matthew Hayden Quotes

I had a feeling '86 would be a good year.

It's nice to have things to look forward to.

Maybe it was just me shorting myself to hedge my expectations. As a fan, I was excited about the project. If you look at the body of work for the people involved, I was excited about the project, but I didn't really know. There were people saying, "I think we're going to be part of something huge."

Soon I will be doing what I love again.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.

Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that.

This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.

Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.

Sometimes there's a reason for the hype.

I don't know about the future; no one really does. I'm excited about the possibilities of what can happen, and I feel good about it.

The future is something I'm looking forward to.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

Stick with me, kids. It's about to get so good... -A

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.