Anticipation Quotes - Page 9

• Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  War, Doubt, Sides

  'The Ancient Sage' (1885) l. 66

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• [Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

  Saint Basil

  Disappointment, Rain, Fall

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• There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency, It is organic with a lot of anticipation and you can hear it, the way it is played. My favorite bands that I love from way back have a lot of things going on and it makes it real, it is not tangible but it is the spirit of the moment.

  Marco Mendoza

  Real, Guy, Band

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.

  Seamus Heaney

  Jobs, Safe, Enough

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• Hope is itself a species of happiness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Species

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.426

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• [Constant curiousity leads to happiness:] I wake up curious every day and every day I'm surprised by something. And if I can just recognize that surprise every day and say, 'Oh, that's a new thing, that's a new gift that I got today that I didn't even know about yesterday,' it keeps me going. It keeps me more than going. It keeps me enthusiastic and grateful!

  Michael J. Fox

  Grateful, Yesterday, Today

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• As for anticipation, you never know what to expect of a book. They're like kids: you bring them into the world, fret about them, and then at some point there's no other option but to turn them lose and see how they do.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Kids, World

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a purpose. Without a clearly defined purpose, seven in ten individuals feel unsettled about their lives; with a purpose, almost seven in ten feel satisfied!

  Mark Lepper

  Purpose, Study, Seven

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• It used to be when a good record was about to drop you heard it out of every car and every kid with a boom box was playing it 3-4 weeks before it came out. Now it's not like that you just see ipods left and right and there's no anticipation factor. I have yet to see something drop with the anticipation that Illmatic had or that Ready 2 Die and Cuban Linx had. Those records had real anticipation factors.

  Mic Geronimo

  Real, Kids, Ipods

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• The relationship between looking and desire is really about the promise of revelation - the hope that the subject of your gaze will reveal something to you - whether or not that revelation is prurient. And that's really what eroticism is - the anticipation of disclosure.

  Nicole Miller

  Promise, Desire, Revelations

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have to show who I am, play with the crowd, play with the camera. When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation, "What is he going to do?"

  Usain Bolt

  Race, Who I Am, Play

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Law, Dimensions

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• If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

  Dalai Lama

  Strength, Real, Painful Experiences

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• There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

  Jerome Groopman

  Pain, Block, Keys

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.8, Random House

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• It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

  Winston Churchill

  Events, Would Be, Given

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal. I can finally get to that goal. Then you get to that goal, and then you gotta get to another goal. But in between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed - and if you don't, you're a fool.

  Sid Caesar

  Goal, Fool, Want

  "THEATER; Sid Caesar: Ich Speaken German at Met". Interview, www.nytimes.com. 1987.

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• All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?

  Max Lucado

  Running, Horse, Blessing

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• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

  Bernard Beckett

  Optimism, Curiosity, Superstitions

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2006.

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• ...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Children, Careers, Curiosity

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• People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Optimistic, People, Events

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.161, Penguin

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• Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

  Chip Kidd

  Certainty, Doom

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• Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores.

  Ted Nugent

  Arrows, Years, Tree

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Enjoyable, Activity

  Source: time.com

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• Go forward with joyful confidence.

  George Eliot

  Joyful

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• Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Vacation, Dutch, Periods

  Source: time.com

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