Quotes About Preparation

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

There is no future in waiting for tomorrow.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.