Vidal Sassoon Quotes

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

The long run may be too long.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

You can never plan the future by the past.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.

Planning means looking ahead.

I get asked all the time, What do you do differently than 10 years ago, or what will you do differently in the years to come?' In the years to come, I have no idea.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.

The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

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

The next move is always the test.

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the "puck" is now and where it will be soon.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

When in doubt, take the next step.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

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.

To-morrow will give some food for thought.