Anticipation Quotes - Page 17

• Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

  Thales

  Philosophy, Men, Common

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• We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Twilight, Dawn, Gone

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “Songs of Many Seasons : 1862-1874”, p.110

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• He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.

  Joe Garagiola

  People, Guy, Christmas Eve

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• We must discover security within ourselves.

  Boris Pasternak

  Security

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• We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Worry, And Love, Reason

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• Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

  Plutarch

  Real, Ignorance, Evidence

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• Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

  Price Pritchett

  Moving, Ambition, Goal

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• The vitrines and shelves that I make, the objects displayed can be easily exchanged. This is a key to the work-the objects are mere signs of capitalism. The reason for their existence is in anticipation of their own destruction. They are meant to trigger a resemblance to the way store windows appear just before they are smashed by demonstrators. They represent targets for potential violence.

  Josephine Meckseper

  Violence, Window, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

  Denis Waitley

  Running, Real, Winning

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• Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

  Sam Snead

  Hazards, Scared, Tense

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• The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

  Ramakrishna

  Knowing, World, Helping

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• ...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

  Martin Luther

  Evil, Overcoming, Endure

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.146

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• Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hatred, Gone

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.56, New Directions Publishing

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• Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

  Horace

  Death, Time, Memories

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Confidence, Courage, Fear

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• Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Worry, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 130

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

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• The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Happiness, Thinking, Worry

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• Before I ever start a job that I'm really excited about, I usually have some sleepless nights or weeks or months. But that anticipation for a person like me... I don't do so well with a lot of time off.

  Lily Rabe

  Jobs, Night, Months

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

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• Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Understanding, Example, Use

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• Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Spring, Hoe, Matter

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.20

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• Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

  Earl Nightingale

  Eye, Goal, Mind

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• Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Blessed, Expect Nothing, Disappointed

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• Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Reflection, Evil

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• In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

  Paul Harvey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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