Anticipation Quotes

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
Anna Neagle

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

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
Henry Taylor

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

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

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers

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

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.
Dwight Yoakam

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
Piers Anthony

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
Ted Koppel

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

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
Felicity Kendal

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.
E. Stanley Jones

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

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.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.
Mark Rutherford

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.
Edward Streeter

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist, the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation, but then again, it's not the end of the world.
Sam Collins

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

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

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.







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