We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity. — Sax Rohmer Copy Share Image
When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it… — T Jay Taylor Copy Share Image
I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a… — Ahlam Mosteghanemi Copy Share Image
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day,… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I am all, like you butterfly, with anticipation is seeing, being with you, touching you, talking with you and just sitting three… — TC Copy Share Image
In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I was one of those goofy kids whose year narrowed down to focus on Christmas from about September on. I guess I… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
“I felt the kind of acute anticipation that a child might experience at a carnival, where each lurid attraction incites fantastic speculations,… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model. — Robert South Copy Share Image
“We made plans. I lay in bed for a long time just feeling delicious anticipation. Then excitement hit. I got up. I… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“My hands are clammy. It’s a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we’re walking into. The last time I felt this… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“Waiting should always be avoided. Good or bad, confronting the future is better than torturous anticipation or crippling dread.” — Jay Bell Copy Share Image
We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“Two ways to increase your anticipation time are looking farther ahead and reducing speed in busy situations.” — David L. Hough Copy Share Image
Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Anticipation is the best alarm there is, and it shook me awake before my phone even had the chance.” — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future,… — Buddha Copy Share Image
As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation. — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Besides... anticipation is the key to seduction, and right now, I'm really into delayed gratification.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film. — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
