Jacqueline Winspear Quotes

The long run may be too long.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

I'm going with the flow. I feel when the time is right to stop, it will be flashing in neon lights for me, like this is it. It could be this year, it could be next year, I have no idea. Anyone in their profession seems to think it's fairly clear when it's the right time. I haven't had that moment of clarity.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

When in doubt, take more time.

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Sometimes problems just have to sit and wait until we can see a solution.

I think long-term, not short-term.

The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.