John Green Quotes

It's the preparation that's my favourite part of the process.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

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

I like surprises.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

You bet I did. I enjoyed it.

Not only do I have fun in the ring, but I have fun walking out to the ring. I have fun walking away from the ring.

I want people to know that I am having fun. That's the biggest compliment I can get is when people tell me I'm having a blast out there - if they only knew. I'm having the time of my life every night.

When you like something, it's not work, it's a pleasure.

My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.