Anticipation quotes
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"My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it."
"Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation"
"Anxiety beclouds the future."
"Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished."
"Be happy in anticipation of what's coming."
"Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities."
"We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there."
"All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed."
"It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events."
"If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument"
"Hope is necessary in every condition."
"Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted."
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
"The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before."
"If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy."
"Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen."
"As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity."
"A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works."
"Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life."
"Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation."
