Peter Singer 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.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.

We don't want to make a mistake. Would you rather make the mistake and err on the side of caution or wait until something happens and then answer to the American people, why you didn't vet these people properly?

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

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.

If you spend most of your effort preventing bad things from happening you will also prevent many good things from happening.

Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

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.

If we wait for the danger to become clear, it could be too late.

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

From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

Precaution is better than a cure.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

Forethought spares afterthought.