Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

The long run may be too long.

The long view counts.

The future comes one day at a time.

Foreknowledge is power.

I think long-term, not short-term.

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

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

Pep Guardiola sees things before they happen, and that's an advantage - a massive plus.

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

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

Don't live like there's no tomorrow because tomorrow always comes.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

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

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.