Quotes About Foresight

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

The majority of us cannot see beyond a few years, just as some animals cannot see beyond a few steps. Just a little narrow circle — that is our world. We have not the patience to look beyond, and thus become immoral and wicked. This is our weakness, our powerlessness.

How could one ever steer a ship, unless one kept ones eyes fixed on the course ahead? If you suspect there are rockd you must avoid them, but it would be a waste of time wondering how you cane to be where you are. - William Price

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. –Lumbee

If hindsight of some women was as good as their foresight, they wouldn't be wearing slacks.

I said I know my shot when I see it. Sometimes you don't even have to see it. Sometimes you feel it coming, screaming down the sky towards you like a meteor.

Isn't it odd that you only become clever when it's too late?

Maybe that's what innocence is, having no way to predict the pain of the future.

Spontaneity and playing it by ear is fine for those who can afford it, but a boy from Eloe had to have a strategy

men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity," and

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.

Being a physical specimen doesn't mean you're any good at playing inside. Positioning, using your head, the mental stuff - that's my game. That's what makes a good inside player.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

When I first turned pro, I was making a lot of money, and I was spending money from two fights down the line.