Quotes About Forethought

Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A civilisation involves fixed rules, discipline, a passing from the instinctive to the rational state, forethought for the future, an elevated degree of culture—all of them conditions that crowds, left to themselves, have invariably shown themselves incapable of realising.

Someone who shakes a tree needs to be ready for what might fall on him. - Craig Carney

What do you think their game plan is? Why the delay?" Jean sits down across from her

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations

You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead.

Success depends upon previous preparation.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow.

Foresee how you are going to begin when the mind is fresh to grasp every word you utter. Foresee what impression you are going to leave last—when nothing else follows to obliterate it.

prevent difficulties rather than solve them.

Better a thousand times careful than once dead.

But we are never prepared for what we expect...

Irritably, Piatt replied that "in ninety days the land would be whitened by tents." But Lincoln would not take the bait. He merely replied: "Well, we won't jump that ditch until we come to it," pausing before he added: "I must run the machine as I find it." Piatt left dinner wondering why the "strange and strangely gifted" Lincoln remained "so blind.

If you don't worry about something until it's already a problem," said Rosie, "that's not worry. That's observation.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

I never come on the sets unprepared. I don't come here and then decide what I have to shoot. I prepare myself well in advance.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

You can't operate by hindsight.

Qui non est hodie eras minus aptus erit. He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

In her brain she runs a computer program to evade dooms no one has even considered. There's nothing she hasn't thought of, and thought of and thought of, poor woman.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.