Quotes About Forethought

Forewarned is forearmed...

Speak again with Messer Simone and fish up what you can. Fair weather or foul, it's the part of wisdom to be prepared.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable.

The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence.

Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water.

The choice had been made. The bomb was already looking ahead, to the terminus of its new trajectory.

One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. -Sherlock Holmes

What you think later makes you wrong before.

tomorrow you will need it.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

The Brunswick Manifesto, rather than accomplishing Louis XVI's rescue, paved the way to the guillotine, which could have been foreseen if Karl Wilhelm had given the matter any forethought, but thinking ahead is given to chess players, not to autocrats.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Better a little caution than a great regret.

Better to be worried and ready." "Is it? Sometimes I think it's better to just never see it coming. Why end on a worry?

was a master of the PowerPoint presentation nearly a century before it existed.

Plans act as a forcing function against all kinds of stupidity because they demand that important issues be resolved while there is time to consider other options. As Abraham Lincoln said, "If I had six hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend four hours sharpening the axe," which I take to mean that smart preparation minimizes work.

Chance favors the prepared mind. —Louis Pasteur

b.] be prepared to be prepared.

Sometimes you think you can see around corners, and maybe you can.

To fail to Prepare is to prepare to fail

If anybody knows that you need to be prepared regardless of the situation, that's me.

I've always thought I could commit the perfect murder. People who get caught get caught because they don't have patience; they refuse to plan.