Top 1200 Anticipating The Future Quotes & Sayings

I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.

Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

When I shaved part of my head in 2007, I was not an anticipating the grow-out process.

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not going to come, that future is just a fool's imagination. I don't think about the future. I am a totally different kind of person. I don't think about the future at all, it is irrelevant.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.

Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

People are anticipating my next move, and whatever it's going to be, it's going to be big. I'm not fussy over my opponent.

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

Throughout your day, when you notice that your thoughts have drifted away, come back to where you are. You'll instantly see why you drifted away, whether because you were bored, anxious, dwelling on the past, or anticipating the future.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.

And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that unreal area between the past, the present, and the future.

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

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

Maintain an attitude of anticipating success!

The successful entrepreneurs on the free market will be the ones most adept at anticipating future business conditions. Yet, the forecasting can never be perfect, and entrepreneurs will continue to differ in the success of their judgments. If this were not so, no profits or losses would ever be made in business.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do nothing and we drift fatalistically into a future not driven by technology alone, but by other people's need, greed, and creed. The future is not some dim and distant region out there in time. The future is a reality that is coming to pass with each passing day, with each passing decision.

Family is the future, security is the future, work is the future, investment is the future, dignity is the future.

I'm kind of a nerd in that I get really excited about things... I love anticipating if they're going to like their rooms or not.

He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened.

We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

It's true that no policy fully survives first contact. But if you don't spend time anticipating the shots you are likely to take, you wind up flailing about wildly.

You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Anticipating a boomerang child seems the odds-on thing to do. Think about furnishing - hello, sleeper sofa - with this in mind.

Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS.

I just feel that I need to set my kid's future as best as I can and my family's future and my friends' future as well.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Believers have a genuine, unfailing hope of a future reunion with loved ones. We can find joy in anticipating our future reunion.

Bliss cannot be found by remembering the past or anticipating the future.

The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.

We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

Everybody knows that at a Freedia show, you're definitely going to have some crowd participation, and they're anticipating and waiting for that moment.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

Both my own process and that of the publishing industry are just too slow to do anything other than play catch-up when it comes to anticipating change.

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon.

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.