Anticipation Quotes

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

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.

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.

The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

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.]

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.

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

Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.

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

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

Go forward with joyful confidence.

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

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

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

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.

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.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

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.

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.

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

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

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

The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.

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

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.

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.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

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

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

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

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

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

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

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.

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

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

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.