Best 276 quotes in «anticipation quotes» category

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.

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 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'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.]

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

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

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

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.

The trick is to never lose hope!

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

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

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

We fear something before we hate.

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

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

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.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

You have infinite value and worth! You already know you have strengths and inner resources. But you have even more strengths and resources that you are not yet fully aware of, and they will enhance your life as you become more aware of them. There are many more strengths and inner resources that you can gain and build up from now on.

You have to learn to deal with your own, for want of a better word, insecurities, fears. They don't go away. And that's normal. It's human. You don't ever really want to lose that. What you want to do is learn to manage it and to work with yourself. But there's a part of you that has anticipation and fear. And so the important thing to know is that there's nothing wrong with that and that that's normal. You have to learn how to deal with it, certainly, but it doesn't keep you from doing it. And that doesn't go away ever.

You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.

After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over. ("New York Blues")