Anticipatory Thinking Quotes

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

I'm a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He's always two or three steps ahead, so he's hitting a shot, but he's also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind - to always be ahead.

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

We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined thus far don't seem very attractive.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

I don’t believe in an answering questions that have not become relevant yet.

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

A woman's thought runs before her actions.