Andrew McCarthy Quotes

You always look ahead to what you'll do next.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Creatively, I try to always look forward and look at the next thing I want to do.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

I find myself working ten steps ahead of where I actually am on my laptop or keyboard, but I know what the ten steps are. I just haven't got to them yet.

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.

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

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.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.

I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

Planning means looking ahead.

I have always believed that process is more important than results.

For me, doing all the TV stuff and having the experience directing, knowing what you want to make is 90% of it. The rest of it is just guiding everybody on that one path. But, figuring out the path is the difficult part.

We finished 'Spaceman,' and before we were even done with that, we had already been talking about what we were going to do next.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

I'm a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He's always two or three steps ahead, so he's hitting a shot, but he's also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind - to always be ahead.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself.

I am always focusing on what I can do better for years down the line.

We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

After every major tournament or challenge, I'll always sit down and say 'how does the future look? How does the next six months, year, four years look?'