Pharrell Williams Quotes

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

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision, and I think about everything that's going to happen because of that decision. I'm a Libra, and I'm very strategic.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

It takes time and effort and preparation to think. Statesmen are far too busy making speeches to think.

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

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.

Begin with the end in mind.

I want to make smart choices.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I like to study the question or the problem or the opportunity in hand, work with the team to come with the right answer, make a decision, and act upon it. Some people have said that, actually, today they pretty much like their bankers dull.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

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