Quotes About Foresight

Los humanos somos los únicos en todo el reino animal capaces de comprender el concepto de mañana

Dan dengan seorang laki-laki yang sekedar seorang penjahat, jika kau cepat, kau selalu bisa menghindari yang terburuk darinya. Ini cara pintar yang ingin kau lihat. Mereka punya cara-cara lebih buruk untuk menyakitimu, dan kau tidak selalu melihat mereka datang - Ehara

We'd be fools not to.

In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?

Allow me to ask you, then, how man can govern if he cannot plan for even so ridiculously short a span as a thousand years or so, if, in fact, he cannot guarantee his own next day?

Permita-me perguntar: como o homem poderia governar se ele não apenas está privado da possibilidade de elaborar um plano para um período de tempo ridiculamente curto, como, digamos, mil anos, mas nem consegue responder pelo dia de amanhã?

Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, good visibility all the way. Looking back, he sees the path, he sees the people proceeding, he sees their mistakes, but not the fog.

Creators love creations before they exist.

When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.

We have been blind somewhat; blind after the manner of men, since when we can look back we see what we might have seen looking forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen! Alas, but that sentence is a puddle; is it not?

It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. —GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It

The unexpected is not always a surprise. —Mentat observation

The only action that has vaster repercussions for the universe than making a life is TAKING one... which is why I'll never understand why most people put so little foresight into doing either.

It's so much easier if you just tell yourself you're strategically heading in the opposite direction of those that wish to do you harm so that you may mock them at a later time.

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

Michael Kami, the strategy expert wrote, Those who do not plan for the future cannot have one.

As Michael Kami, the strategy expert, wrote, "Those who do not plan for the future cannot have one." Personal

Long term thinking improves short term decision making

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

Rule: Long-term thinking improves short-term decision making. Successful people have a clear future orientation. They think five, ten, and twenty years out into the future. They analyze their choices and behaviors in the present to make sure that what they are doing today is consistent with the long-term future that they desire.

The two most important qualities for success in business are patience and foresight, and the man who lacks patience is not cut out for success in competitive enterprise.

Al proyectar hacia el futuro y mirar hacia atrás hasta el presente, verás a menudo pasos que puedes tomar y errores que puedes evitar.

Those who ignore history are doomed to get their nuts cut.

The tragedy of the human species is it has evolved the capacity of foresight, but refuses to use it.