Anticipation Quotes · Page 12

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

— Alain de Botton

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

— Billy Graham

“Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.”

— Ana Monnar

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

— Oprah Winfrey

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

— Don Meyer

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

— Robin Hobb

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

— Francis Bacon

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

— Joseph Joubert

“Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows. And still there are those who smile at the…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies…

— Samuel Johnson

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

— Sean Durkin

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

— Ernest Hemingway

Anticipate setback, anticipate defeat and they will be but bumps on the road to long term success.

— T Jay Taylor

The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the…

— Dean Acheson

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least…

— Mark Twain

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one…

— Jerome Bruner

Broadway has a lot more razzle-dazzle than the West End. In terms of the everyday work routine, it's not different, but there's…

— Richard McCabe

“I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories…

— Kristie LeVangie

Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get…

— Sid Caesar

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different…

— Piers Anthony

“Anticipation is more potent than a whip and more compelling than handcuffs. The ability to tease and arouse a woman is a…

— Jason Luke

We get one of these little pings on our smartphones, and we get a little hit of dopamine as well. We get…

— Kim Stolz

You have infinite value and worth! You already know you have strengths and inner resources. But you have even more strengths and…

— Zelig Pliskin

When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no…

— Deepak Chopra

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

— Barbara Kingsolver

Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come

— Og Mandino

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

— Truman Capote

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

— Daniel Kahneman

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

— Nicholas Sparks

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

— Friedrich Schiller

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

— Anonymous

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life...

— Francis Bacon

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.

— Dov Davidoff

“I want that. The getting younger with each step, because of anticipation, in hope and belief.”

— Rachel Cohn

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

— Norman Cousins

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

— Seneca the Younger

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

— Sam Snead

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson