Quotes About Foresight

we tend to visualize future events very poorly and with a deficit of proper imagination.

Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one—had you had the Opportunity? I

A fool is one who always talks outside his glass.

This absolute lack of objectivity might be said to resemble nothing so much as the lack of objectivity these same people had shown during Stalin's life, when they had been so supremely worshipful of his mind and strength of will, of his foresight and genius. Their hysterical worship of Stalin and their total and unconditional rejection of him sprang from the same soil.

Many people have dreams. However, a vision is a dream with a plan:

In general, looking forward is great management; looking backward is micromanagement.

A good plan now is better than a great plan too late.

He asked himself whether human society could have the right also to subject its members,on the one hand,to its crazy lack of foresight and,on the other,to its pitiless foresight,and to hold a poor man forever between a lack and an excess-lack of work and excess of punishment

It wasn't quite the death of hope—part of her still hoped that Coop was alive somewhere. It was more like the application of hope. She wanted to make sure that no one else—child, adult, crew member, captain—would ever lose a loved one to foldspace again. It was probably a vain hope. But it would keep her going, for at least another forty years.

David," Magic Johnson said in the eighties, "has this unbelievable gift for seeing around the corner before anyone else.

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb

Udayan has indirectly hinted the stock market fall for the next 6 month . Only who can read between the lines has understood his remarks and commentary

Experience is the only prophesy of wise men.

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

Acquiring preemptive knowledge about emerging technologies is the best way to ensure that we have a say in the making of our future.

I looked down the endless stretch of highway and decided not to borrow trouble from too far down the road.

Simon taught me to face financial needs as they arise. Never short current obligations for those you can't even see yet.

You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It's a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That's all addiction really is. It's trading away the future so you can feel OK right now. That's what your mom is doing. And that's what got me. There's really quite a lot of it going around.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

can see what others cannot see, but sometimes I miss what is apparent to the dimmest simpleton.

I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern of the whole.

For a seer, I was remarkably obtuse.

He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth

Old people see best in the distance.