Anticipation Quotes

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

~ Dr. Seuss

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.

~ Nicholas Sparks

It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

~ Criss Jami

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

~ Julian Barnes

...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.

~ Gaynor Arnold

The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair.

~ Steven L. Peck

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect.

~ Peter Sloterdijk

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this once in a thousand years has come today.

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

~ Steve Toltz

But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.

~ Sharon Weil

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

~ Douglas Macarthur

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

~ Criss Jami

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

~ Criss Jami

First, the wind would rumble in the distance like an approaching river, then he would see grass bend, pressed by a great invisible hand. The dull rumble would rise in pitch to a swishing, lashing exultation, causing stalks to lie flat against the ground while the tougher branches of shrubs held themselves up and shrieked their defiance in the gusts. Then the first drops, cold and heavy, would plummet from the sky and burst on the ground.

~ Jonathan Renshaw

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

~ Robin Hobb

Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

~ Criss Jami

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.

~ Ana Monnar

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives

~ Sunday Adelaja

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

~ Criss Jami

Talking is great, but don't ignore the value of listening. Pay attention to the words being spoken. Some people just love the sound of their own voice. And, when another person speaks, they are only anticipating to compete, challenge, or question what is being said. You can miss out on some important wisdom always running your mouth.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end’s impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously?

~ Teo Yi Han

When you see someone on top, look away and don't try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

With God, a mountain is only a road waiting to happen.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

~ Anthony Liccione

People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materialises. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals - you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.

~ Russell Brand

It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.

~ Criss Jami

He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he'd imagined himself doing when he bought it. That might even be why he bought it - so he'd have this moment, under her hair. He ran his fingertips along the chain and settled the pendant on her throat.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Thank the past for all the lessons it taught you, anticipate the future for all the blessings it has in store for you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I wish to go down under the waters—the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where allthat is, here, existing, isis only to be lost within the susurrationsand the rumours of water and the evening starwe wait for...

~ John Daniel Thieme

I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.

~ Lionel Suggs

It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.

~ Lisi Harrison

There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine

~ Pushpa Rana

Sometimes what we lack is the thrill of anticipation or the delay of gratification. We enjoy things far more when we've really desired them but had to wait for them. The real value is found in our self control and patience, which allows us to delay gratification and build anticipation. Letting desire build is an abstract way to achieve balance and moderation in your life... Moderation just may be the answer to boredom - go figure! -- pg 145-146

~ Cristin Frank

When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

~ Charles Dickens