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• When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.

  John Green

  Real, Sunrise, Surprise

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• This is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow. People know my name and ambush me in public and try to figure out what hotel I'm staying at and ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair.

  Robert Pattinson

  Hair, Names, People

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• If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

  Eric Bentley

  Hope, Cancer, Hands

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• I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered I was wrong. There is something familiar about my old vinyl. Call it nostalgia, but I don't care for the 'purity' of CDs. They have no personality! The crackle and pop of the stylus on a record player as you wait for the music to begin creates an anticipation that CDs simply can't provide.

  Anthony Pilla

  Music, Reading, Player

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• Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Positive, Optimistic

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• The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

  Robert Frost

  Morning, Choices, Mind

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• You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

  Amy Harmon

  Appreciation, Ferris Wheels, Speed

  FaceBook post by Amy Harmon from Sep 19, 2014

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• Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

  Lucy Grealy

  Pain, Simple, Anxiety

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.

  Susan Patron

  Waiting, Curiosity, Stronger

  Susan Patron, Erin McGuire (2012). “Lucky for Good”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

  Andrew Stanton

  Drama, Uncertainty

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• Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Moon, Clouds

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Future, Past, People

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.33

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• For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

  Eric Sevareid

  Christmas, Children, Memories

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• Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.

  Colin Greenland

  Sex, Writing, Desire

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• You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!

  Sanjay Gupta

  Inspirational, Graduation, Heart

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• Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.

  Allen Lacy

  Time, Memories, Spring

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• Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Surprise, Satisfying

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action taken now, in anticipation of supposed long run trends, may concentrate on the wrong issues and make matters worse rather than better.

  Colin Robinson

  Running, Taken, Issues

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• Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grateful, Waiting, Feelings

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• Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way and thus creating an increased consumer acceptance. It gives the guest the feeling of anticipation, excitement, expectancy, delight, and pride in the management of his favorit hotel.

  Dorothy Draper

  Art, Pride, Acceptance

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• What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

  Oscar Wilde

  Blessing, Looks, Trials

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• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Clouds, Looks

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• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]

  Robert Collier

  Mistake, Lying, Adversity

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• We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

  Seneca the Younger

  Hurt, Dark, Reality

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• We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations.

  Willard Gaylin

  Memories, Space, Design

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