Anticipation Quotes

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.