Quotes About Forethought

I always looked ahead.

Expectations are pre-meditated resentment.8

Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

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.

When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare.

A little." She set it on the counter. "But it's probably not a terrible idea. Just in case.

Look at a chessboard. Even the most elegant of wins required sacrifice.

Before beginning, prepare carefully

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The wise person is one who can see beyond the immediate and recognize the long-term consequences of their actions.

It's much more efficient to prevent problems than clean them up.

Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.

Meanwhile, Rick was supplying texture and melody, and Roger drive, discipline and musical forethought. As drummers are a law unto themselves, I fortunately have never had to justify my existence in quite the same way.

Never fight tomorrow's fight today,

The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families, and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

Do not worship God Inexorable God Neither needs nor wants Your worship. Instead, Acknowledge and attend God, Learn from God, With forethought and intelligence, Imagination and industry, Shape God. When you must, Yield to God. Adapt and endure.

They help us to shape God and to accept and work with the shapes that God imposes on us. God is power, and in the end, God prevails. But we can rig the game in our own favor if we understand that God exists to be shaped, and will be shaped, with or without our forethought, with or without our intent.