Delayed Quote by Samuel Alexander

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

— Angela Carter

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

— Samuel Smiles

“Delaying gratification is one of the most rewarding human pleasures. In almost all cases, the anticipation of an enjoyable experience is as pleasurable as…

— Karen Amanda Hooper

“Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective--on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely in facing the future?”

— Gordon Dahlquist

“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And…

— Geoffrey Wood

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

— Samuel Johnson

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in…

— Samuel Johnson

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

— Tennessee Williams

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal…

— Marcel Proust