Anticipate Quote by Donald Barthelme Download Open image “Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.” — Donald Barthelme ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anticipate Anticipation Possibility Too much
You always have to anticipate. You never know when things are going to change, so you have to be prepared. — Bruce Buffer Copy Share Image
Don't expect too much for sometimes it will shatter your anticipation. — Jehan Fostanes Nayga Copy Share Image
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen. — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“The story ends. It was written for several reasons. Nine of them are secrets. The tenth is that one should never cease considering human… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“INTERVIEWER Why don’t you write tragedy? BARTHELME I’m fated to deal in mixtures, slumgullions, which preclude tragedy, which require a pure line. It’s a… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Do I want to be loved in spite of?Do you? Does anyone? But aren't we all to some degree? Aren't there important parts of… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe for that. The root causes of poetry have been studied and studied. And now that we know that pockets of poetry still exist in our great country, especially in the large urban centers, we ought to… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share
Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“You came and fell upon me, I was sitting in the wicker chair. The wicker exclaimed as your weight fell upon me. You were… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Mother, have you noticed that this society we’re in tends to be a little…repressive?” “What does that mean, Eugenie? What does that mean, that… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“They were heading I judged for the Sixth Precinct. Had I had the black hat with me, and sufficient men and horses and lariats… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
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… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate? — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together… — Larry Conley Copy Share Image
