Jack Garratt Quotes

I'm the kind of person who visualizes things before doing them.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

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.

You always look ahead to what you'll do next.

Anticipation forward points the view.

Begin with the end in mind.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.

I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

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.

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

The more prepared I am, the calmer I will be.

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

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

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

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

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 think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.