Anticipation Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anticipation Expectations Foolish Miserable
We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency, It is organic with a lot of anticipation and you can hear it, the way it is played. My favorite bands that I love from way back have a lot of things going on and it… — Marco Mendoza Copy Share
Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know? — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown. — Lou Boudreau Copy Share Image
Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout… — Gary Chapman Copy Share
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our guesses are guided by the unscientific, the metaphysical (though biologically explicable) faith in laws, in regularities which we can uncover-discover. Like Bacon, we might describe our own contemporary science-'the method of reasoning which men now… — Karl Popper Copy Share
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over a table… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with… — Paul Boateng Copy Share Image
![“[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on…” quote by Zelig Pliskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68d/zelig-pliskin-22951_anticipation_it-is-hard-to-know-what-is-good-luck-and_34545.jpg)
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