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“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
Aristotle
“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy”
Lao Tzu
“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”
Seneca
“What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“We usually get what we anticipate.”
Claude M. Bristol
“There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it”
Alfred Hitchcock
“The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.”
Publilius Syrus
“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw be”
Samuel Johnson
“Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.”
Mark Twain
“Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.”
Deepak Chopra