Anticipation Quotes - Page 23

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Body, Way, Affected

  Baruch Spinoza (1992). “Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters”, p.114, Hackett Publishing

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• A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Past, Men, Affected

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.110, Commodius Vicus

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• Fear manifested invites danger.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Danger, Invites

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• So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

  Robert South

  Despair, Littles, Limits

  "Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions".

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• Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Inspire, Despair

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• Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

  Samuel Rush Meyrick

  Anxiety, Defense, Turns

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• Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Evidence, Antidote

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• I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

  Anais Nin

  Miracle, Walks, Expectancy

  Anais Nin (1992). “La casa dell'incesto”, p.42, Feltrinelli Editore

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• Desire makes everything blossom

  Marcel Proust

  Desire

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• Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hope, Comfort, Imperfect

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.45

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• The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.

  Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

  Passion, Expression, Taught Us

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• God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.

  Sam Storms

  Heart, Leaving, Dying

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• Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come

  Og Mandino

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.91, Bantam

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• You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

  Betty Ford

  Business, Sad Truth, Knows

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books

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• (Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

  John Irving

  Baseball, Games, Waiting

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Moving, Giving, Force

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  Peter Benchley

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hopeful

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• Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Years, Has Beens

  "Arthur Clarke The Visionary In the Real '01" by Felicity Barringer, www.nytimes.com. January 6, 2001.

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• I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

  Sean Durkin

  Firsts, Horror, Hours

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

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• In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India-I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving-it is not in the result of loving.

  Mother Teresa

  Time, Love Is, People

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Spring, Winter, Long Ago

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, p. 169, 1949.

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• I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.

  Robert Klein

  Monday, Hangover, Order

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• Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen

  Leif Enger

  Dad, Thinking, Unseen

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• A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

  Gayle King

  Knowing, Way, Sometimes

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