Edward Snowden Quotes

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.

It isn't what you find, it's what you do about what you find.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

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

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

Those who mill around at the crossroads of history do so at their own peril.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

I don't know exactly what's next. But I do know now that it's something rather than nothing.

People can expect that from me as premier: If there's something to be done, something to be fixed, it'll happen.

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.

I remember the day Ukraine became independent. I was 20; now I am over 40. It was like one second - time goes so fast. If we wait, the next 20 years will go by. We have a choice to wait or to fight for the better future of our country. I know better than anyone: no fight, no win.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

The next move is always the test.

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

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

At every single moment, we are given the opportunity to choose our future. What we do today will determine what we face next week, next month, or next year. It is at the moment of a particular occurrence that we are called upon to make a choice: Will I do it the way I've always done it, or will I do it a different way.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.