Marc-Andre ter Stegen Quotes

Thinking ahead or thinking behind is not good for me.

I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.

Keep your head on the ball. You've got to hit it first, then look where it goes. People get in trouble when they look for where the ball's going, and they haven't even hit it yet.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

Remember the past, live the present, think a little less about the future.

If you think about the future, you lose perspective of the present.

If you start thinking about eventualities, you lose your focus, and you can soon forget about it.

We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.

You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look ahead a bit or else you’ll bump into something. You’ve got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what’s ahead. That’s critical, no matter what you’re doing.

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

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

Confine yourself to the present.

I always live in the present - I love the present. I cherish the future.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

I certainly have the problem of focusing on doing everything now to get where I want to be, and not actually seeing and taking in and appreciating what's right in front of me or who's right in front of me.

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

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

The future comes one day at a time.

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

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

Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.

You read the play that's in front of you. You don't try to look back; you don't look forward. You deal with the game that you have in front of you.