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Anticipation Quotes

We’ve collected the best Anticipation Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Jeremy Taylor, Bruce Pittman, Bonobo, Saint Bernard, Makoto Shinkai. Use them as an inspiration.

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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Jeremy Taylor
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We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America‘s future in space.
Bruce Pittman
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All my records feel like a diary of the time and headspace they were made in and ‘Black Sands‘ documents this in real time for me. A transition of falling in love with beatmaking again. An appreciation of a place and time and an anticipation for what was going to happen next.
Bonobo
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
Saint Bernard
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‘Your Name‘ is a film created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese team and put together in a domestic medium. When such a work is imbued with Hollywood filmmaking, we may see new possibilities that we had been completely unaware of – I am looking forward to the live-action film with excited anticipation.
Makoto Shinkai
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I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers
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The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation – not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be.
Lawrence Schiller
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Even though it’s meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there’s something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost thrill.
Mark Gatiss
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: ‘What is he going to do?’
Usain Bolt
10
People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
Eckhart Tolle
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The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives me the greatest sense of anticipation.
Sarah Brightman
12
In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen – the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
Oren Peli
13
What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.
Steven Van Zandt
14
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats‘s odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
James Fenton
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We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation.
Michael K. Powell
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
Henry Taylor
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I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar‘s, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.
David Blaine
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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.
Oliver Goldsmith
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When family and friends go to Everton, they tell me that there’s a moment when I get the ball, and fans get to their feet in anticipation. There’s so much at stake that people live under permanent pressure.
Gerard Deulofeu
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In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.
Roberto Unger
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As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn’t sleep at night from anticipation.
Rosecrans Baldwin
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It’s the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People’s imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
Matt Reeves
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The racing driver‘s mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.
Emerson Fittipaldi
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Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
Piers Anthony
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My kids‘ happiness kind of outweighs everything. Just seeing the smiles on their faces and the anticipation leading up to Christmas is what I love now, having kids of my own.
Matt Barnes
28
Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
Joan Jett
29
You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.
Paulie Malignaggi
30
I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It’s not being ‘Pollyanna’ about things, but most stories don’t have the ending we would give them right away. The better endings come later.
Bob Goff
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Look, in my life, I played one World Cup: the greatest thing. I used to wait in anticipation for the squad announcement. I didn’t go to Argentina 78 having played throughout qualification. Now, that hurt.
Fabio Capello
32
The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
Elizabeth Bibesco
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Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.
Ashwin Sanghi
34
Broadway has a lot more razzle-dazzle than the West End. In terms of the everyday work routine, it’s not different, but there’s a cachet about Broadway that lends itself to more anticipation among audiences.
Richard McCabe
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At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
Franz Beckenbauer
36
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
Lou Boudreau
37
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Theodor W. Adorno
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
Ted Koppel
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Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
Dario Argento
40
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins
41
When we lose the ball, I don’t want to win it back directly. I act smarter now, have better anticipation, and also start earlier when somebody tries to lob the ball over me.
Jerome Boateng
42
It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.
Dwight Yoakam
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But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
Anna Neagle
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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
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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.
Roger Rosenblatt
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The meshing of the brands is great. I think it brings excitement. It brings anticipation of not knowing who’s going to be on ‘Monday Night Raw‘ or on ‘Tuesday Night SmackDown‘ so I think it’s really awesome.
Mandy Rose
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Any design, whether it’s for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
Henry Petroski
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
Henry Rollins
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To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it’s where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
John Sununu