Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes."
Anticipation quotes
Anticipation
209 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"The trick is to never lose hope!"
Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting"
Henry Rollins
Musician, Writer, Actor
"If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done."
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"It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you."
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"I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face."
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"Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real"
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"I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles."
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"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes."
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"Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation."
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"Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . ."
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"The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it"
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"Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period."
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"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."
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"I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future."
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"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him."
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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."
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"Desire makes everything blossom"
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"How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life."
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"Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."
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"...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present."
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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."
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"The center of every man's existence is a dream."
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