Paul Weller Quotes

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

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 think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

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

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

I am a coach who thinks always in the long term.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

I try not to take people who haven't really thought out what they're doing too seriously. I try not to let them get in the way of what I feel I need to do.

Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.

I'm not extremely political. I think everything should be layed out and you can make your own conclusions. As soon as I feel I'm being taught something or preached something, I just glaze over it and I don't want to hear it.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.