Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Foreknowledge is power.

Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

I'm always looking to know what I'm going to do before I receive the ball in order to make my team play better.

I go by the rule of Gretzky: you gotta be there before the puck gets there, or you're going to get beat.

As a player I think you naturally think long term and think what is the schedule in the next year or so.

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.

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

The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.

Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

Forethought spares afterthought.

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.