Robert Burns Quotes

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

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

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

I think about the next season right away.

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

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.

You always look ahead to what you'll do next.

We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be

My job is to think beyond the immediate.