Best 276 quotes in «anticipation quotes» category

Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives

Waiting for an experience elicits more happiness than waiting for a material good... When we spend money on experiences, those purchases are also more associated with our identity, connection and social behavior.

What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect.

We cannot feel good about an imaginary future when we are busy feeling bad about an actual present.

What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end’s impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously?

What’s behind the door or lurking at the top of the stairs is never as frightening as the door or the staircase itself.

When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.

When you see someone on top, look away and don't try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top.

With each passing moment, I’d get that feeling you sometimes have the moment you’re about to flip the final page of a really good book, when your anticipation for what happens next overwhelms you, but you also know that turning the page means you're closer to an end.

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of the town they would have liked to slow it down and hold each moment in suspense, once the breaks went on and the train was entering the station. For the sensation, confused perhaps, but none the less poingant for that, of all those days and weeks and months of life lost to their love made them vaguely feel they were entitled to some compensation; this present hour of joy should run at half the speed of those long hours of waiting.

You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

Anticipation forward points the view.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

Would that we could choose the last image we see before death closes our eyes forever to this world.

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.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

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

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

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

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

Desire makes everything blossom

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

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

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

Fear manifested invites danger.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!