Best 276 quotes in «anticipation quotes» category

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

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

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

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

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

I know men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses, and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts. I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times. I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, 'Oh my God!' when you get to the top before you come down. It's just the same as structuring a show or a dance.

Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself.

I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesars, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

It's not over until it's over.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

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

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events.

Life is a series of surprises.

Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

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.

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.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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