An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
Samuel AlexanderThe perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel AlexanderDesire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Samuel AlexanderBoth expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel Alexander