Quotes About Premeditation

If you fail to plan you are planning to fail.

Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner.

But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.

to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.

Perhaps. But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

What we prepare for is what we shall get.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

He knew he would need his hands.

Of course, you think ahead and like to plan to a degree.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

Planning means looking ahead.

Edgar's family believed in plans. His father had often said that you had to build the entire boat in your imagination before picking up the first piece of timber.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

she thinks, 'Oh, this guy cares'... which I didn't. I just want to get her in the vehicle and eventually kill her." - Gary Ridgeway

I really try to plan out my dinners in advance.

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then.

Whenever he was about to commit some particularly heinous act, he first found a character flaw in the victim then proceeded with a serene conscience.

As part of Rockefeller's silent craft and habit of extended premeditation, he never tipped off his adversaries to his plans for revenge, preferring to spring his reprisals on them.

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.