William Gibson Quotes

If you think two steps ahead, you forget what's important in the now.

A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

I'm not a good thinker of tomorrow, looking forward. I live day-to-day. It's much easier for me that way.

I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.

As a player I think you naturally think long term and think what is the schedule in the next year or so.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.

If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.