#anticipation

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#anticipations #investing #others #successful

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face. ↗

— Billy Graham

#death #face #forward #god #great

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#contributing #field #forum #forward #great

I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big. ↗

— A.B. Shepherd

#hopeful #life-changing #change

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#rationality #reality #thinking #equality

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#happiness #life #memory #pleasure #education

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#acting

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy. ↗

— Amy Plum

#die-for-me #lust #vincent #fun

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. ↗

— John Green

#pleasure

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#direction #discrete #political #problems #solutions