Jodi Picoult Quotes

Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place?

We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the story of humans on every problem.

You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

I am a big believer in early intervention.

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

It is axiomatic in politics that the earlier one addresses a problem, the more the alternatives and the easier the solutions.

The risks of inaction are far greater than the risks of action.

We must solve problems before they occur, rather than scrambling to deal with crises after they erupt..

I'd say if you wanted to forestall bad events, the best thing to do is anticipate them and try to correct them before they get close.

Write and create as much as you can, because if you're sitting around waiting for someone to give you a well-round, interesting, incredible role on a silver platter, you're going to be a real cute skeleton covered in cobwebs when that happens.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?

Do your worrying before you place your bet, not after the wheel stops turning.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

The lesson of September the 11th is: Take threats before they fully materialize.

If I hear something's not quite going right, then I'm there quicker than if I hear something's going wrong.

We don't want to make a mistake. Would you rather make the mistake and err on the side of caution or wait until something happens and then answer to the American people, why you didn't vet these people properly?

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.