Anticipation Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Men, Goal

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• [Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Worry, Joy

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• Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Able, Way, Arise

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.70, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Example, May

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• Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

  Faye Dunaway

  Soul, Pairs, Handcuffs

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• Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Doe, Trouble, Prove

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• True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!

  Karl Ludwig von Knebel

  Strong, Character, Mind

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• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Attitude, Two Sides

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• The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].

  Dean Acheson

  Worry, One Day At A Time, Trying

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• From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.

  Shimon Peres

  Dream, Journey, Care

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• We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

  Zig Ziglar

  Past, Realistic, Beats

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• ... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

  Anne Perry

  Heart, Optimism, Brain

  Anne Perry (2011). “Callander Square”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery

  Ahlam Mosteghanemi

  Dream, Waiting, Slavery

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• If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Goal, Bored, Unhappy

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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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• 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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