Top 375 Anticipation Quotes & Sayings

Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

On Christmas morning, our joy or our happiness can be at a very high level, not because of our anticipation of what we might receive but, rather, in anticipation of watching our loved ones open our gifts to them. In fact, if we're not careful, we can fail to register sufficient excitement and joy upon opening the gifts we receive from others. We must remember that they are happiest at that time and to give them top billing, to stretch their happiness to its full length.

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.

When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

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

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It's not testing you. It's benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrater. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation. It is excited anticipation.

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that's what makes it tragic. It's about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same.

When you get these franchises with some built in profiles and anticipation... I think the anticipation and the buildup can can exceed the delivery.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come

Anticipation forward points the view.

Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

Rebellion' was amazing, there was a lot of anticipation leading up to that event.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

It used to be when a good record was about to drop you heard it out of every car and every kid with a boom box was playing it 3-4 weeks before it came out. Now it's not like that you just see ipods left and right and there's no anticipation factor. I have yet to see something drop with the anticipation that Illmatic had or that Ready 2 Die and Cuban Linx had. Those records had real anticipation factors.

Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.

I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

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

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.