Best 276 quotes in «anticipation quotes» category

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

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

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

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

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure

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

Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

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

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

Optimism is true moral courage.

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

Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

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.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a purpose. Without a clearly defined purpose, seven in ten individuals feel unsettled about their lives; with a purpose, almost seven in ten feel satisfied!

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

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

Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.

The emotional build-up and anticipation if you travel at Christmas can make it harder to enjoy a trip. I think sometimes it is better to travel outside of conventional holiday times for that reason.

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.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

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.

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

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

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

There is no greater illness than discouragement!

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.