Best 276 quotes in «anticipation quotes» category

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

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.

It's not over until it's over.

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

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

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.

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

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

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Life is a series of surprises.

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

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

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

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

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

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Optimism is true moral courage.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

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

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.

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

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

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

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

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

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

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.

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!

... 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.

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.

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.

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.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

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

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

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.