Anticipation Quotes - Page 19

• Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Taken, Eye

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• ...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, May, Torment

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• Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

  Lou Boudreau

  Knowing, Thrown, Shortstops

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

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Anchors, Childhood

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• I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

  Zane Grey

  Lying, Knowing, Achievement

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• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Dancer

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• On the other hand, we worked a year on this and some people are going to watch it in a night and go, "We want more!" And there is something I miss about the longing and the anticipation for the next episode.

  Jenji Kohan

  Night, Hands, Years

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• There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Peace, Future

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• Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

  William Raspberry

  Life, Moving, Loss

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• Having your spiritual radar up in constant anticipation of His presence- even in the midst of the joyful chaos and regular rhythms of your everyday living- is paramount in hearing God, because sometimes the place and manner you find Him is the least spectacular you'd expect.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Spiritual, Everyday, Hearing

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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, Anticipate, Evaluate

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• No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Mistake, Men

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• We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

  David Leavitt

  Past, Hands, Worry

  David Leavitt (2013). “The Two Hotel Francforts”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Debra Ginsberg (2006). “Blind Submission: A Novel”, p.4, Crown

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

  Susan Mitchell

  Moments, Stills

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• I was anxious to get started, There was so much anticipation. I wanted to get in the routine
  of playing games. It was just nice to be on a team, not competing against these guys in camp [but] trying to
  work together to win.

  Sidney Crosby

  Nice, Team, Winning

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• Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

  Epictetus

  Life, Hope, Niece

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Witty, Giving Up

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1147, Wordsworth Editions

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• Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

  Francis Beaumont

  Wings, Bird, Heaven

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• If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow.

  Rickson Gracie

  Thank God, Today, Tomorrow

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• Anxiety beclouds the future.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anxiety

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.449, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Triumph, Heroism

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• So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

  William James

  Brave, Use, Fit

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.100, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

  Al Gore

  Opportunity, Sometimes, Danger

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• Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.

  Klas Pontus Arnoldson

  Hate, Heart, Ignorance

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