Quotes About Foresight

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

I don't want any help, she said. I want someone to think ahead the way I have to and to do it without me having to ask.

They were happy because they didn't have enough imagination to look ahead, he thought, and anyone who tried to tell them there were dangers was by definition an enemy of the community.

there was no saying what might come in useful some day.

you should be," she said. "Look what happened to Julius Caesar when he underestimated those around him." So we went out to the

In the age of upheaval, the quantities of foresight and ingenuity required to run a large organization exceed the abilities of any single human being or small team—and the bar keeps going up. Simply put, bureaucratic structures ask more of leaders than they can deliver.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." – Steve Jobs

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." – Winston Churchill

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." – Winston Churchill "You

The highest art of the chessplayer lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do.

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

When Arthur Guinness set up his first brewery, he signed a 9,000-year lease. When J. K. Rowling conceived Harry Potter, she thought big and envisioned seven years at Hogwarts before she penned the first chapter of the first of seven books.

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

Small plans at best yield small results, and big plans at worst beat small plans.

What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow.

To know our enemy we must understand their trajectory. If I can know their history I can predict their future.

WHATEVER happens tomorrow, one thing is certain; it must not be allowed to look after itself.

They tried to tell us that what happened to them would happen to us, too, but we could not hear the message. Mistook it for nostalgia, when they were speaking prophecy.

I know that there is a reason for everything. Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have neither the insight nor the foresight to comprehend the reason, but with time and patience it will come to light.

The Rest Of Your Life At A Glance", which he thought

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

When I was growing up, I was taught that the future belonged to those who could imagine it.

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

If you're planning for consequences, in some sense, you are empathizing with your "future self.