Anticipation Quotes - Page 5

• The opportunity to perform. It's just the feeling of anticipation and then once you're in the middle of it - you get in the zone. That's what you hope for.

  Lenny Jacobson

  Opportunity, Feelings, Middle

  "Actor Lenny Jacobson: On getting in the zone, vulnerability, and preferring chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Power, Expectations

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

  Samuel Smiles

  Reality, Desire, Clarity

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

  Samuel Johnson

  World, Saws, Tomorrow

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.148, Univ of California Press

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• The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Time, Literature

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.125

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• We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

  Joseph Addison

  Rely Upon, Expectations, May

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.123

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• Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

  George Crabbe

  Design, Scene, Lively

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.293

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• If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Argument, Anticipate, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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  I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

  George Burns

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume

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• I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sunset, Wings, Flying

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• Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Inspirational, Depressing, Influence

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.346

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• You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Thinking, Luck, Having Hope

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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

  Ted Koppel

  New York, Pages, Fields

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• If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!

  Alain de Botton

  Good Life, Views, Skills

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• Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Adventure, Giving, Thank God

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• There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

  Josh Billings

  People, Worry, Sorrow

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• Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Dream, Challenges, Overcoming

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  There is nothing permanent except change.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

  Samuel Johnson

  Miscarriage, Arrogance, Despair

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The rambler”, p.263

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• With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

  Honore de Balzac

  Punishment, Expectations, Soul

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• Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

  Quintilian

  Suffering, Doe, Apprehension

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• When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Nice, Sunset, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.426, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Passing By, Dwelling

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• Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Expectations, Please, Adversaries

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• It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Suffering

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