Anticipate Quotes

“Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“When negative thoughts about anything – be it a person, an unhealthy habit, a circumstance or a work deadline – surround our existence, we tend to feel helpless, for our energies are draining faster than we had anticipated.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“First, the wind would rumble in the distance like an approaching river, then he would see grass bend, pressed by a great invisible hand. The dull rumble would rise in pitch to a swishing, lashing exultation, causing stalks to lie flat against the ground while the tougher branches of shrubs held themselves up and shrieked their defiance in the gusts. Then the first drops, cold and heavy, would plummet from the sky and burst on the ground.”
― Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder

“Sometimes we anticipate conditions before they become real and we create our own heartbreaks.”
― R.J. Intindola

“Because anticipate rather than search the bushes. (Car plutôt anticiper - Que les fourrés rechercher.)

(The Rabbit and the Hedgehog / Le Lapin et le Hérisson)”
― Charles de Leusse, Fables 1

“The great men walk on their shadow: They anticipate the future. (Les grands hommes marchent sur leur ombre : Ils anticipent l’ avenir)”
― Charles de Leusse

“Planning is a continuous and real-time activity that must anticipate and adapt to counter emerging pitfalls in the pursuit of achieving intended objectives.”
― Victor Manan Nyambala

“Plan ahead for developments that could seriously impact you, and then decide how you’d deal with them.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life

“Suddenly and unexpectedly the birds descended on the feeder in droves. Thirty minutes later, the snow began. And I thought that to anticipate something is far better than to fall prey to it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What I’ve learned, Uncle, in a life you despise, is that everything we do has more than one consequence, and half those or more we never anticipate.”
― Elizabeth Moon, Oath of Fealty

“It was going to be easier, McVay knew, to blame him for failing to anticipate the emergency than it would be to conduct a more thorough investigation. It would be easier to simply lay the blame on McVay's shoulders, since captains bear the ultimate responsibility for what happens to their ships.”
― Pete Nelson, Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis