Browsing Topic Best Anticipation Quotes

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

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

We must discover security within ourselves.

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

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

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

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.

…be more guided by hope than fear.

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

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.

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

Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

…The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

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

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

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

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

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Gardener’s , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.