Laurent Jalabert Quotes

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

The comedy seeds were planted before the Marine seeds. The thought of comedy never happening was scary. When you have a plan, you never know what will happen.

The future is inherently uncertain.

I can't predict the future.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

I can't predict the future.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Life is a school of probability

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

War is uncertain, precisely because it is political and human.

Forecasting will always be somewhat of a coin toss.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.