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• Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

  Lou Boudreau

  Knowing, Thrown, Shortstops

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• The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Past, Tyrants

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1541, Delphi Classics

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• Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Men, Tragedy, Negative

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• The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.

  Chauncey Wright

  Philosophy, Writing, Science

  Chauncey Wright (1871). “Darwinism: Being an Examination of Mr. St. George Mivart's 'Genesis of Species'”, p.8

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• Before I had my first child, I never really looked forward in anticipation to the future. As I watched my son grow and learn, I began to imagine the world this generation of children would live in. I thought of the children they would have, and of their children. I felt connected to life both before my time and beyond it. Children are our link to future generations that we will never see.

  Louise Hart

  Children, Son, This Generation

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• I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.

  Anne Hathaway

  Fun, Thinking, Theatre

  "Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Nolan’s Universe, Filming in Imax and More on the Set of the Dark Knight Rises". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Victory, Spurs, Way

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• If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

  Dale Carnegie

  Goal, Inspire, Energy

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• I know men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses, and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts. I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times. I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, Worry, Transformation

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

  Francis Bacon

  Affection, Beneficial

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1844). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author”, p.495

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• I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

  George Eliot

  Knack, Estates

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.550, Oxford Paperbacks

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• How many would die did not hope sustain them.

  Owen Feltham

  Dies

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.179

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• How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May, End Of Life, Deceitful

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• There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

  David Mason

  Positive Thinking, Successful, Persons

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• There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhism, Siddhartha, Doubt

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• Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Body, Disease

  "Ahmedabad ready to host England as Test doubts continue" by David Hopps, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2008.

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• We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

  Al Gore

  Opportunity, Sometimes, Danger

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• So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

  William James

  Brave, Use, Fit

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.100, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Triumph, Heroism

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• Anxiety beclouds the future.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anxiety

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.449, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow.

  Rickson Gracie

  Thank God, Today, Tomorrow

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• ...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, May, Torment

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• Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.

  Klas Pontus Arnoldson

  Hate, Heart, Ignorance

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• We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Dancer

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• The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivational, Inspiration, Waiting

  Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.99, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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