Quotes About Foresight

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively.

**(C)(P)-THE URGENCY OF NOW-SITUATION DICTATES THAT WE ACT WITH DUE DILIGENCE AND COMPETENCE TO GET AND ACHIEVE OUR FOCUSED OBJECTIVES. DIFFICULT CONSEQUENCES MAY ARISE FROM DIFFICULT DECISIONS MADE. HINDSIGHT MAY ALWAYS TRY TO VALIDATE FORESIGHT, BUT ONLY IF FORESIGHT WAS PREDICTABLE IN ITS OUTCOMES!

responsibility! americans love to say-it is, what it is. I, ras cardo say:- responsibility is foresight, not hindsight. It is looking far beyond the- here and now of the consequences which will most surely flow from our actions or in-actions. We must show young people how to-look for it, embrace it, and use it by being it. This is what we should mean when we say-it is, what it is. It is something , much better when its shared.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

My business is to prevent the future.

It's better to be prepared for that which does not come, than unprepared for that which does

Predicting the future is actually the primary reason that we have a brain.

Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.

Hindsight is expensive. Foresight is valuable.

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.

One of the things you get caught up as a coach is thinking short-term.

I knew that Errol Spence Jr. was going to be my last fight. I knew that in 2017 when he won his championship fight. But after we fought, I felt that there was something else, and that something else was Terence Crawford.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

I have a weird sense sometimes of what's going to happen before it happens, and I kind of live by that, which is how my instincts operate, I suppose.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

it is almost impossible in the heat of the moment to understand long-term consequences.

Trying to guess the enemy's next move is useful; trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless.

Only a genius might have foreseen such a turn; Bovai had a high opinion of his own skills and ability, but stopped short of considering himself a genius.