Nick Faldo Quotes

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

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

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what's going to happen, but it's also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you're not going to get it right at the very beginning.

In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. 'I'ma do this, I'ma do that, this is gonna happen, that's gonna happen.' And a lot of stuff don't go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That's how I compare chess to life.

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

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

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

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.