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Anticipation Quotes

Quotes on waiting, wisdom, and expectation

These quotes treat anticipation as both a strength and a trap - the Ability to foresee consequences is wisdom, but constantly expecting tomorrow can mean missing today entirely.

Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.

Quotes by Abhimanyu Singh

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

I've waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, 'Third Class Superhero.'

Quotes by Sarah Weinman

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

Quotes by Paulie Malignaggi

Ability Quotes

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Quotes by Norman Cousins

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

Quotes by Lou Boudreau

I like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all that stuff that's important when it comes to playing quarterback.

Quotes by Jared Goff

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.

Quotes by James Fenton

Always Quotes

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

Quotes by Irving Penn

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Quotes by Gloria Swanson

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

Quotes by Elizabeth Bibesco

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

Quotes by Deepak Chopra

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Aristotle

Antagonist Quotes

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

Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the central tension in these anticipation quotes?
The idea that anticipation can be wise or wasteful - foreseeing consequences shows wisdom, while constantly expecting the future can steal attention from the present.
Is there a quote that defines wisdom through anticipation?
Yes, one calls wisdom simply "the anticipation of consequences," tying good judgment directly to thinking ahead.
Do any quotes describe anticipation as exciting rather than cautious?
One describes eager anticipation for a favorite author's upcoming novel, capturing the purely positive, excited side of waiting for something good.
Is there a warning about too much anticipation?
Yes, one warns that expecting is "the greatest impediment to living," arguing that anticipating tomorrow too much causes you to lose today.
What does "he who matures early lives in anticipation" suggest?
It suggests early maturity brings a habit of looking ahead, living mentally in what's coming rather than staying fully present.

One quote captures the pure excitement of anticipation, describing eager anticipation for a favorite author's next book - a feeling that seems to be with us Always, for better or worse.