Ann Landers Quotes

One should be constantly looking for the broader vision.

I think long-term, not short-term.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

I think all presidents should take the long view of history.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.

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.

I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.