Quotes About Foresight

You can only predict things after they've happened.

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.

Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

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

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.

I want to be one of those players like Jason Kidd, who is always in tune with the game and sees several plays ahead.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

On a career level, I always advise people to look ahead and be open to changes in direction. That job that seems so good now can easily turn into a nightmare if you do not see the possible corners it can land you in.

If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don't want to hear about it. But when it's too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That's human nature.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

I have a special ability to spot TV shows that don't go past two seasons; that's my gift.

Obviously, when you're in your early twenties, you don't think about your decisions and their long term effects.

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.