Anticipation Quotes

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

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Inspirational, Bangs, Cinema

  "Attributed to Alfred Hitchcock in "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion"". 1984.

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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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• 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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• ... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

  Albert Camus

  Sweet, Pain, Needs

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• The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

  Andy Warhol

  Ideas, Waiting, Exciting

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Morning

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• Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

  David Hume

  Pleasure

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated”, p.405, eKitap Projesi

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• Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.133, Egmont UK

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Imagination, Desire

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.344

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• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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• For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Thanks, Has Beens

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Remember, Live In The Present

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

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• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'Butler'

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• Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Twins, Born

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• All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

  Charles Kingsley

  Happiness, Running, Reality

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• One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

  W. E. Johns

  Garden, Desire, Essentials

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• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Fear, Philosophical

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• My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

  Charles Lamb

  Wish, Contentment, Littles

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.89

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• Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Mean, Unbelievable Things

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• The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Joy, Possibility, Discovering

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• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

  Norman Cousins

  Motivational, Wisdom, Entrepreneur

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Achievement, Promise

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• Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Soul, Enjoyment

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.3149, Delphi Classics

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• Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

  Rex Brandt

  Art, Tension, Uncertainty

  Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”

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• A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Sight, Fog

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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