Anticipation Quotes - Page 25

• Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.

  Dov Davidoff

  Reality, Exceed

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• There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Feelings, Delight, Agonizing

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• Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Believe, Mind

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• The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

  Ross Parsley

  Opportunity, Imagination, Routine

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• We are facing incredible challenges in the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the globe, but the stock market, we never know whether it's over-discounted or under-discounted or got exactly right its anticipation.

  John C. Bogle

  Challenges, Incredibles, Economy

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• Once we get out on the road, my tour manager who is also my guitar player does a great job of taking weight off of my shoulders where I can just focus on playing the shows.About two hours before every show, the pacing starts and the anticipation builds. I prepare for it just like I would when I used ride bulls, slap yourself in the face, wake yourself up and get your heart going.

  Cody Johnson

  Jobs, Heart, Player

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• Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.

  Ann Coulter

  Night, Cost, Oscars

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• We get one of these little pings on our smartphones, and we get a little hit of dopamine as well. We get excited. We feel anticipation. As we feel this, we want it more and more. So we spend more and more time looking at our phones.

  Kim Stolz

  Phones, Want, Littles

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the loss but it lowers our whole energy level. I think that's a pervasive way we end up responding to loss or the anticipation of loss. Natural but not necessary.

  Tara Brach

  Pain, Distance, Loss

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Work Out, Effort

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.167

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• Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sleep, Expectations, Draught

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.149

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• Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Night

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• Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

  John Eldredge

  Heart, Journey

  John Eldredge (2008). “Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

  Amelia Earhart

  Realization, Sometimes, Exceed

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.46, Crown

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• Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Photography, Art, Memories

  "Looking Back" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. March 21, 2005.

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• While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

  Patience Strong

  Spring, Joy, Taste

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Rocks, Pilots, Complaining

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• We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Expectations, Wish, Enjoyment

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.45

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• This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"

  Edward Lampert

  Thinking, Opportunity, Ideas

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• God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Giving, Sorrow, Doe

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.288

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• When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.

  Esther Hicks

  Feelings, Unhappy, Desire

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• Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Ifs And, Fellows

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “The Life of the Mind: Thinking”

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• There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Reform, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.106, Delphi Classics

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• ...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

  Lucan

  Men

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• If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Fascination, Mindset, Interest

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