Alan Rudolph Quotes

I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

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

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Hope is not a strategy.

I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.

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

I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.

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

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

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

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

We must use time creatively.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Foreknowledge is power.

My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far.

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.