Anticipate Quotes

• Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Inspiring, Graduation

  "Dictionary of Thoughts". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 22, 1908.

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• Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Life, Charity

  Moses Maimonides (1963). “The Wisdom of Moses Maimonides”

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• I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

  Dian Fossey

  Animal, Equality, People

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• What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Failure, Political, Politics

  "Henrietta Temple, by the Author of 'Vivian Grey'".

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• The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Future

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2017

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• I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Anticipation, Remember

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.33, Penguin

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• The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.

  Jeff Cooper

  Winning, Doe, Action

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.14, Paladin Press

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• Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

  Dhani Jones

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Past, Anticipation, Evaluate

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• The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Future, People

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 30, 2015

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• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Worry, Anticipation

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• When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Artist, Views

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• In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

  Paul Allen

  Meaningful, People, Horizon

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• It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

  Charles Sturt

  Success, Conducting, Should

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.68

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• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Trust, Criticism, Sincerity

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• Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Patience, Waiting

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

  David Sylvian

  Artist, People, Musician

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• One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Ideas, Space

  "Master of few words". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

  F. H. Bradley

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Girl

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 23, 1930.

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• I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

  Barry Bonds

  Education, Kids, League

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

  Jim Costa

  Japan, United States, Partners

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• The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

  Kevin Kelly

  Past, Organization, Literature

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Being Happy, Wisdom

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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• Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

  Kevin Kelly

  Trying, Literature, Environment

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