Quotes About Foresight

Some can read the writing on the wall.others put it there.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

interiores de otras personas, ver a través de sus ojos y sentir lo mismo que ellos. Podemos ser empáticos. Podemos anticipar el futuro e intentar hacerlo realidad. Estos poderes, la retrospección, la empatía y la premonición, se encuentran entre nuestros mejores recursos para dar forma una y otra vez a nuestras vidas.

Surely, it would not take much to distinguish between the character of a person who foresaw a world ending "not with a bang but a whimper," and one who feared some mighty holocaust, as were the planets ripped into smithereens by explosions from within.

The genius who doesn't imagine is merely a brilliant idiot.

The future is not what we make but what we see

Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.

Forewarned is not forearmed. Sometimes you spend so much effort looking for the track that you know is there, that you miss the other one that you didn't know about.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?

As we stand on the tracks, we can avoid the oncoming train only if we are willing to see it and willing to predict that it won't stop. But instead of improving the technologies of prediction, America improves the technologies of conflict:

if you cannot imagine something, you also cannot predict it, nor protect against it.

And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives? One

I spent half my childhood and half my adulthood practicing prediction while perfecting denial.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

All her life she had been such a planner, a plotter, a plodder. She planned meals the week before so she knew how to shop. She planned vacations a year in advance so they could save on airfare.

If "best years ahead" is the answer, then "things stupid people say" is the question.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

One of the problems of prevention is that you rarely know about the disasters you averted.

But remember, we're doing this so that we can be better prepared for the next crisis, when we will be equally ignorant of entirely new things that are just as important and will be just as obvious in hindsight

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, and all that sort of thing.

Irene hated trusting to luck. It was no substitute for good planning and careful preparation.

If, on the eve of the war, a fortune teller had pointed to all the Australian men between the ages of 20 and 30, and had predicted that a number equal to 60 per cent of that age group would be killed or permanently disabled in the coming war, she would have been ridiculed but she would have been correct.

You might define vision as foresight with insight based on hindsight.