Robert Patrick Quotes

Foreknowledge is power.

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

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

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

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

The long view counts.

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.

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

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.

Prediction is difficult - particularly when it involves the future.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

The roadwork is just rehearsal for that DVD you're going to film a year later.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation