Joe Davis Quotes

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Precaution is better than cure.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the story of humans on every problem.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Only the paranoid survive.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

If you don't have reservations, you're a fool. You can't go blind into something.

You need to be ready for all situations.

If anybody knows that you need to be prepared regardless of the situation, that's me.

Trust, but look for the exits.

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

It pays to be prepared.

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

Precaution is better than a cure.

Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

Forethought spares afterthought.