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Quotes About Premeditation

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
~ Ruth Gordon
who wishes to fight must first count the cost
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.
~ Mark Fuhrman
The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the premeditation of coups d'etat.
~ Victor Hugo
Preparation starts after the game before.
~ Austin Seferian-Jenkins
I find myself working ten steps ahead of where I actually am on my laptop or keyboard, but I know what the ten steps are. I just haven't got to them yet.
~ Jack Garratt
Success depends upon previous preparation.
~ Confucius
boiling Mr. Wolff alive was quite outside the realm of 'reasonable force' and the fact that the large pan of water would have taken at least six hours to reach boiling point strongly indicated premeditation.
~ Jasper Fforde
Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.
~ David Baldacci
El éxito o fracaso dependían en gran medida de la preparación. Con una buena preparación, lo único que se requería hacer era ejecutar. Incluso podían realizarse cambios en el ultimo momento si la planificación lo requería." ? David Baldacci , MÁXIMO IMPACTO (The Hit)
~ David Baldacci
the agenda well in advance; the questions that would be asked, the replies that would be
~ Jeffrey Archer
The majority of my work is about preparation.
~ Taryn Simon
Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.
~ Nigel Dennis
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.
~ David Hackworth
When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
~ Idries Shah
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
~ Confucius
She opened a small silver compact and looked at her face in its mirror. I am still guiltless, she thought, I have not done it yet. But I will look the same when I have done it; nobody will know the difference by looking at me. She touched the little puff twice to her nose and once to her chin. She closed the compact and put it away. ("Mind Over Murder")
~ Cornell Woolrich
I used to prepare in advance on how the bowler is going to bowl, whether is he going to bowl an outswinger or an inswinger? I used to watch the videos of the bowler and used to prepare in advance.
~ Virender Sehwag
Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.
~ Ingmar Bergman
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. "Aspargus is in season," said Francis helpfully.
~ Donna Tartt
luck was the residue of preparation.
~ Unknown
Good luck is a residue of preparation.
~ Jack Youngblood
The bearing of all this on the question of premeditation [and premeditation will imply sanity] is very obvious. You must not allow any considerations of age or temptation to weigh with you in the finding of your verdict. Before you can come to a verdict of guilty but insane you must be well and thoroughly convinced that the condition of his mind was such as would have qualified him at the moment for a lunatic asylum.
~ John Galsworthy
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
~ George Eliot