Anticipation Quotes

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

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

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

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

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

The opportunity to perform. It's just the feeling of anticipation and then once you're in the middle of it - you get in the zone. That's what you hope for.

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told...

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

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

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

We fear something before we hate.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.

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

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

Not to anticipate is already to moan.

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.