Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

It pays to be prepared.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Foreknowledge is power.

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

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

I have a weird sense sometimes of what's going to happen before it happens, and I kind of live by that, which is how my instincts operate, I suppose.

I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

I can see things before they happen on the court.

My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far.

I go by the rule of Gretzky: you gotta be there before the puck gets there, or you're going to get beat.

The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

Look before you leap.

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

The trick now is to turn insight into foresight. The trick is to know this about your tomorrow, today... Remember, your future is not coming to you; it's coming through you...change your idea about the changes to come, even as you change your idea about the changes that have passed. Then you can change your experience of both.

Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.