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Quotes About Foresee

I never predict anything, and I never will.
~ Paul Gascoigne
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
~ Mike Murdock
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
~ Robert Burns
I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
~ Dan Quisenberry
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
~ Dan Quisenberry
But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down.
~ Robert Penn Warren
The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.
~ Henry Thomas Buckle
It is not given to human beings—happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable—to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.—WINSTON CHURCHILL, EULOGY FOR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, NOVEMBER 12, 1940
~ Erik Larson
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
~ Gloria Swanson
I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.
~ Shawn Crahan
intelligence was logged. Sooner or later something would
~ Lee Child
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
~ John Wooden
turning out as I expected it would.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist
~ Francesca Woodman
None of us can foresee the consequences of such a step." Ponce de Leon ran his fingers through his hair, smoothing it back into place. "Though after centuries of watching mankind, I sometimes suspect intelligence is overrated.
~ Jim C. Hines
Hindsight bias is the tendency, after an outcome is known, to see the outcome as having been inevitable. When we say, "I should have known that would happen," or, "I should have seen it coming," we are succumbing to hindsight bias.
~ Annie Duke
Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.
~ Steven Pinker
You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past
~ Roger Lewin
Precious little. Most of the strife I foresee will be on the Sword Coast and its backlands.
~ Ed Greenwood
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
~ Edith Wharton
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
~ Josh Billings
La vida del profeta nos encierra en su visión —pensó Leto—. Y un profeta solo puede escapar de su visión forzando su muerte de una manera que no había vislumbrado en ella.»
~ Frank Herbert
We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
~ Samuel Johnson
They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of silence they herd us into. A zone bordered on their side by the distant din of their false accusations, and on our side by our silent final intentions.
~ John Berger