ANTICIPATION QUOTES II
quotations about anticipation
Sustained anticipation is its own kind of miracle.
CHRIS DEVILLE
"The Chainsmokers Don't Suck Anymore, I Promise", Stereogum, February 25, 2016
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 materializes. 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
My Booky Wook
The amount of joy we receive from anticipation varies, I suppose, on how often our anticipation is met with satisfaction. For me, not only when I'm taking a walk in nature is the destination rarely the point, but often in life -- from traveling to shopping to going to work. There's so much to wonder about: Who might I encounter? What surprise, large or small, may greet me around the next corner?
PATRICE VECCHIONE
"A Walk About Town: Looking for the perfect dress", Monterey Herald, March 2, 2016
Anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once -- the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over.
CORNEL WOOLRICH
"New York Blues", Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories
Anticipation is not, or at least should not be, simply an extrapolation of the present. It is a complex, nonlinear process that tries to find some trajectory, some way of "vaulting" from that which has already been experienced to that which has to be coped with.
RIKA PREISER
Critical Complexity: Collected Essays
Anticipation is not just betting on the future; it is a moral economy in which the future sets the conditions of possibility for action in the present, in which the future is inhabited in the present. Through anticipation, the future arrives as already formed in the present.
SANJAY CHATURVEDI & TIMOTHY DOYLE
Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change
Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
A Little Night Music
This is why anticipation is so important. It creates the desire to seek in the brain.
JOHN GOTTMAN & JULIE SCHWARTZ GOTTMAN
The Man's Guide to Women
Is anticipation the new gratification?
BRIE
"Is Anticipation the New Gratification?", Romance Around the Corner, February 5, 2014
Anticipation is the defining affective state of our time.
AYSECAN TERZIOGLU
The Making of Neoliberal Turkey
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Henrietta Temple
The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation; he therefore is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or the future.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Letter XLIV, Citizen of the World
The anticipation is unbearable, but look on the bright-side -- only 11,518 minutes to go.
RICKY DERISZ
"New 'Daredevil' Season 2 Images Show The Punisher As The King Of The Castle", MoviePilot, March 10, 2016
Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.
DONALD BARTHELME
The Dead Father
There is no better moment than this moment, when we're anticipating the actual moment itself. All of the moments that lead up to the actual moment are truly the best moments. Those are the moments that are filled with good times. Those are the moments in which you are able to think that it is going to be perfect, when the moment actually happens. But, the moment is reality, and reality always kinda sucks!
LEWIS BLACK
Anticipation
It is better to anticipate than be anticipated by others.
G. VINCENTE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZAC
attributed, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
SAMUEL SMILES
Self-Help
The quality of anticipation is a function of the quality of memory. A more varied, richer, deeper, and better-integrated memory will open up more sophisticated anticipatory capabilities.
RIKA PREISER
Critical Complexity: Collected Essays
Truth is, anticipation is a beautiful thing. We anticipate spring (perhaps desperately so, come this time of year), we anticipate birthdays (we've had two in our house in the past week), we anticipate events (sometimes with trepidation and sometimes with joy), and we even anticipate little things like a tasty meal or a warm bed after a long day.
GRETCHEN O'DONNELL
"Column: Anticipation", Daily Globe, February 17, 2016