Quotes About Foresight

Había aprendido mucho tiempo atrás que sobreestimar las capacidades del enemigo podía ser tan peligroso como subestimarlas. Era una lección que debería recordar de nuevo.

Thrawn's unique ability to read a species' deepest psychological core by studying its artwork was one of his greatest strengths, enabling him to anticipate his opponents' moves right down to their likely battlefield tactics. New allies seeing it demonstrated for first time inevitably reacted with surprise, awe, or disbelief.

On the contrary," Thrawn corrected coolly. "Not only will they fall for it, they'll be utterly destroyed by it. Watch, Captain. And learn.

You don't leave an enemy at your back...not if you like living. (Mara Jade)

Self-control is tightly linked with imagining the future. If you can't imagine the future, there's no reason to exhibit any discipline or self-control.

how could a man lead without vision?

attack was coming. The

When the French high command had got wind of the German Schlieffen Plan prior to World War I, their reaction had been, "So much the better for us!" That assault had barely ground to a halt outside Paris. In 1940, the same high command had greeted initial news of another German attack with smiles—and that attack had ended at the Spanish border. The problem was that people tended to wed their ideas more faithfully than their spouses, and the tendency was universal. It

I always know the ending; that's where I start.

It's always good business practice to eliminate any potential avengers.

It's always easy to be wise after the event.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

SOMETIMES I THINK we know on some level the person we're going to be in our life, that if we pay attention, we can piece out that information.

The problem with our human eyes is that we can only see the right now. But God? He sees around the corner, over the hill, and clean to the horizon. He knows what's comin', an' He knows what we need to be prepared for what's comin'. So sometimes those things we face that we don't understand—the things we think of as bad—are really for our good down the line.

I believe you said earlier, Miss James, that an ounce of prevention– (Morgan) Is worth an army of pistols. (Serenity)

It is both a blessing and a curse that one could never see too far down the road ahead

To keep your head. quit while you are ahead.

Because I carried the war in me, I foresaw it.

if you don't ever find yourself recalibrating your decisions, you're likely ignoring some issues that might become problems down the line.

Time opens up our limited access to the world. Time, then, is the form in which we beings, whose brains are made up essentially of memory and foresight, interact with the world: it is the source of identity.

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

Most people spend more time planning grocery lists than thinking about their future.

Vision begins with you.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' We've