I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.
There's no way for me to anticipate what people will like or not like.
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.
Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.
I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first
My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.
To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.
I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.
That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.
We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.
Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.
As a lawyer, I can assure you that a lot of document drafting is repetitive, involving cutting and pasting from templates. But the best lawyers bring a unique perspective to the process and anticipate clients' problems.
I think I tend to feel discomfort more when I anticipate or arrive upon moments in which I need to be careful. As a gay person, there's the fear of violence, and we're not making that up.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.
We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.
And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.
Things have their own pace, and if we work with that pace and anticipate the issues correctly, we can have good results.
I had a feeling 'Star Wars' might do well, but I didn't anticipate just how well.
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.
I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.
Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.
My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.
If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.
I love hanging out with my kids, my family. That's something you never really anticipate or understand it until you have a family.
When I was doing something on someone else's dime, I was inclined to try to anticipate what they wanted. I knew that wasn't what an artist was supposed to do. In funding my own music, I found my voice.
We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.
What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.
We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
You're got to be able to be smart enough to put yourself in position to make the play. You have to be able to anticipate and read what the offense is doing and be there beforehand.
If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument
As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible, to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not.
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. [When you lose one blessing, anticipate, look and work for a silver lining and when you find it, you will have a new grateful perspective.]
It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything possible to guard against them.
To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.
We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning.
You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just done.' --Skulduggery
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. [So when you are crying remember also to anticipate and look for the rainbow.]
This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.
As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.
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.
I can't anticipate what's going to happen to me next, but I'd like to think that I'm going to lead a life that's not really memoir-worthy, and that would be fine!
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Just getting to be a part of the 'Star Wars' universe is not something most actors anticipate as part of their careers.
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.
I was fully aware of the challenges facing London before I was elected as mayor, but I didn't anticipate the issue that is likely to define my time as mayor - Brexit.
A scene, a day of shooting, can often make you feel kind of stupid and inept because your one job is to anticipate and react and know what to go for.
If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.
I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.
One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.
I'd say if you wanted to forestall bad events, the best thing to do is anticipate them and try to correct them before they get close.
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