Tulsi Gabbard Quotes

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of organizing your thoughts. We use problem-solving; what we call "what-if-ing." What if this happened? What would we do? We go over plan B, C, D, E, F, and whatever else, depending on the criticality of what we're doing. This kind of thing can be applied almost everywhere, even at home.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as you go through a campaign, there's lots of decision points you make, and you don't know whether those are gonna be the right decision points or not.

I want to make smart choices.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.