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!

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

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!

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

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.

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

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

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.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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

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.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

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.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

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.

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

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.