Anticipate Quotes

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

Losers react. Winners anticipate.

Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

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

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

To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

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.

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn't anticipate. But I'm glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

Not to anticipate is already to moan.

For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.

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.

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

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

As long as you know what you are doing and how to anticipate and throw, I don't think you need all that much physically.

Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it."

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.

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.

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

Leaders anticipate. Losers react

For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

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

For me personally, I need to anticipate pressure and tuck the ball away.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

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.

There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

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.

The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate what the cultural landscape will be when the film enters the world.

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.