Quotes on Anticipation

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

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?

Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.

Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.