Neil Jordan Quotes

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur .

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

You can’t prepare for the best case; you have to prepare for the worst case.

There will always be days when we have to race to catch up to events we did not foresee, not because somebody is asleep at the switch, but because what’s going on is so complicated.

Terrible things happen all of the time, and they can happen in a second. The best thing is to be prepared to react. If you try to control every little thing, you're going to end up miserable - and you're going to fail.

Politics is not a laboratory experiment where you can control everything. You have to take calls even when you feel that matters may spin out of your hand.

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

I can't control how other people are going to react. I can't control what other people are going to say to me.

No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

On the track, you know what you're capable of, but being at the birth, you have no control.

You can't control injuries, can't control guys getting fired and stuff like that.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking; your husband could lose his job; our baby could get sick or die.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.