#anticipation

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

#bang #only #terror

He who matures early lives in anticipation. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#early #lives #matures #who

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#anticipation #back #city #come #dread

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#extend #images #impulse #limit #memory

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#continue #deal #emerge #enable #future

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#battle #brightest #face #far #fought

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

#between #big #bite #book #choice

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

— Deepak Chopra

#anticipation #behaviour #our #response #therefore

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#expecting #greatest #impediment #living #loses

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

#being #capable #desires #intense #into