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• We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Future, Past, People

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.33

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

  Eric Sevareid

  Christmas, Children, Memories

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• Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.

  Colin Greenland

  Sex, Writing, Desire

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• You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!

  Sanjay Gupta

  Inspirational, Graduation, Heart

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• 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.

  Allen Lacy

  Time, Memories, Spring

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• Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Night, Fear Of Failure

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.52, Lulu.com

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• We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

  Seneca the Younger

  Hurt, Dark, Reality

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• Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Imagination

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

  Iris Johansen

  Intense, Pleasure

  Iris Johansen (2011). “An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night”, p.101, Macmillan

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• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  Michel Foucault

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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• Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspirational, Memories, Unique

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• 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.

  John Green

  Real, Sunrise, Surprise

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• This is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow. People know my name and ambush me in public and try to figure out what hotel I'm staying at and ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair.

  Robert Pattinson

  Hair, Names, People

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• If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

  Eric Bentley

  Hope, Cancer, Hands

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• I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered I was wrong. There is something familiar about my old vinyl. Call it nostalgia, but I don't care for the 'purity' of CDs. They have no personality! The crackle and pop of the stylus on a record player as you wait for the music to begin creates an anticipation that CDs simply can't provide.

  Anthony Pilla

  Music, Reading, Player

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• Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Positive, Optimistic

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• The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

  Robert Frost

  Morning, Choices, Mind

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• You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

  Amy Harmon

  Appreciation, Ferris Wheels, Speed

  FaceBook post by Amy Harmon from Sep 19, 2014

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• Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

  Lucy Grealy

  Pain, Simple, Anxiety

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Memories, Timing

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1947). “The poetry of the Brownings: an anthology”

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

  George Santayana

  Love, Positive, Happiness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

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• What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth, Sunlight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sight, Snakes, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Hope is necessary in every condition.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Conditions

  The Rambler No. 67

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• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help to bring about what is desired and makes the wait more enjoyable.]

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Expectations, Optimism, Waiting

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