Best 276 quotes in «anticipation quotes» category

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.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

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

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

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

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

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

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.

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

There is no greater illness than discouragement!

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

The trick is to never lose hope!

The vitrines and shelves that I make, the objects displayed can be easily exchanged. This is a key to the work-the objects are mere signs of capitalism. The reason for their existence is in anticipation of their own destruction. They are meant to trigger a resemblance to the way store windows appear just before they are smashed by demonstrators. They represent targets for potential violence.

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

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

We are facing incredible challenges in the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the globe, but the stock market, we never know whether it's over-discounted or under-discounted or got exactly right its anticipation.

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

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!