Quotes About Foresight

When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back, 'Did we take the right decisions?' Then the decision becomes a lot easier.

In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.

You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

I think about the next season right away.

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

Check the card before you play. If you have a couple of long par 3s, put an extra hybrid in your bag. You'll be glad you did.

I'm not a guy who wants to skydive and open my parachute at the last minute. I want to open my parachute right away and know what's coming.

Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to be running it.

Remember, things are never clear until it's too late.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

if you wanted to see the future you could not go to conventional sources of information.

If you fail to plan you are planning to fail.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

?stikbale hükmetme?e kalkmayal?m. Yar?n madem ki do?mam??t?r, yoktur. Hiç üzerinde bütün tahminlerimizin k?ymeti de hiçtir.

To illustrate, imagine

Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs.

So finding meaning in events is positively correlated with wellbeing but negatively correlated with foresight. That sets up a depressing possibility: Is misery the price of accuracy?

What make the difference is correctly identifying and responding to subtler information so you zero in on the eventual outcome faster than others.

Diz-se que a loucura é simplesmente a capacidade de ver o futuro. E se soubéssemos agora o que saberemos então, provavelmente seria suficiente para nos pôr a todos aos gritos. Na vida, o segredo é manter as duas coisas separadas o maior tempo possível.

Forget the old advice to think twice. Superforecasters often think thrice—and sometimes they are just warming up to do a deeper-dive analysis.

what makes these superforecasters so good. It's not really who they are. It is what they do. Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs. These habits of thought can be learned and cultivated

So finding meaning in events is positively correlated with wellbeing but negatively correlated with foresight.

No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength