Anticipate Quotes - Page 7

• The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something  I make, the better.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Letting Go, Mean, Forget

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• You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.

  Kobe Bryant

  Want, Where You Are, Want To See You

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Moving, Past

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• As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the building. So one could say, or at least it is the common belief that architecture has to be built; I always denied that, because ultimately it is based on an idea. I don't ever need a building to verify my idea. Of course, what with a building is more its vanity and actual physical experience. But I anticipate; I wouldn't even build it if I could not anticipate how it would be.

  Raimund Abraham

  Reality, Ideas, Drawing

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• Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.

  Nick Bostrom

  Opportunity, Errors, Risk

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• A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.

  William C. Brown

  Enzymes, Facts, Doe

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• A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Mistress, Deceit, Deceiving

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• Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Writing, Cells

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• I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Blow, Order

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

  Donald Barthelme

  Too Much, Anticipation, Possibility

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• All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate but which can make the difference between meeting a deadline and going into research mode for a year, etc.

  Erik Naggum

  Years, Taught Us, Differences

  "Is CLOS reall OO?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. May 5, 1998.

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• Our belief systems are the glasses through which we each view the world and anticipate what is likely to unfold. Our behavior is always loyal with our beliefs.

  Margo Adair

  Glasses, Views, World

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• I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Writing, People

  "LONG Tall LYLE". Interview with Joyce Maynard, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 1999.

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• Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Voice, Hands

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.

  Grover Cleveland

  Wisdom, Evil, Hoarding

  United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland), Grover Cleveland (1895*). “Special message, August 8th, 1893. Extract from third annual message, December 2nd, 1895”

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• There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Office, Doubt

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

  John Tillotson

  Heart, Pleasure, Sweetness

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• We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Cups, Bliss

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• I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Grandparent, Quality, Body

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• The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men and women often calls them to act against the spirit of their times or causes them to anticipate a spirit which is yet in the making. In a moment of dedication they are given wisdom and courage to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.

  Howard Thurman

  Heart, Men, Dedication

  "Footprints of a Dream : The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples" by Howard Thurman, (p. 7), 1959.

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• [In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.

  Frank Debenham

  Fall, Blow, Average

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• One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Doe, Opponents

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• If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

  Margaret Halsey

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Magnificence

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Cheer, Character, Thinking

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• Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Thinking, Profound, Revolutionary

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