Anticipating Quotes

Wait and hope!

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Fantasizing about the future is one of my favorite pastimes.

I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite secure enough to allow it to be spontaneous. So the more prepared I am, the more I'm able to kind of let it go . . .

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure.

Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

Speculating on the future serves for nothing.

Michael did it all. I am telling you that he is the most brilliant father. Almost before the baby needed something, he knew what it was.

We must be headlights and not taillights.

If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

Ricky Hatton has no sense of anticipation of what's coming his way. You can teach him all you want, but he doesn't have those instincts.