#anticipate

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates. ↗

— Bill Brandt

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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ↗

— Maimonides

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I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth. ↗

— John Thorn

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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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

— Kevin Kelly

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

— Kevin Kelly

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At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing. ↗

— Seann William Scott

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I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

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