Susan Vreeland Quotes

You have to really think about things before you do them.

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

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.

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Think today and speak tomorrow

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

I hope people will think very carefully about the future.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.

I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

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

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

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.

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

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

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