Anticipatory Action Quotes

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place?

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

The military has to think in terms of worst case scenarios. In a sense, they have to play the pessimist.

We do not always need to wait to attack a terrorist group for them to attack us.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.

When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!

It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

Better to leave before someone else has the idea of sending you away.

We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.

Taking action at an early stage - even before a prosecution may be possible - could stop stalkers becoming fixated.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.