Quotes About Foresight

The reason so many well-considered ideas appear laughable in retrospect is that people involuntarily assume that whatever we believe and prioritize now will continue to be believed and prioritized later, even though that almost never happens. It's a mistake that never stops being made.

To all of you alive people walking around, taking your multivitamins and busy being Lutheran or getting colonoscopies, you need to invest in a good-quality, long-lasting wristwatch with day and date functions. Don't count on getting any cell phone reception in Hell, and don't think for a second you'll have the forethought to die with your charger cord in hand or even find yourself locked inside a rusted jail cell with a compatible electrical outlet.

That's why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

Of course, Admiral Ackbar is a student of history, and in many cases smaller, lesser forces have outmatched and outfoxed their betters. The Ghostfinder fleet versus the Sith armada. The Mandalorians versus the Grand Army of the Republic. And, of course, the Rebel Alliance versus the Empire. History

FUTURE--Unfulfilled Prophecy. The Requirements of a Genuine Prediction are five in number: 1. It must have been made known PRIOR to its fulfillment. 2. It must be beyond all HUMAN FORESIGHT. 3. It must give DETAILS. 4. A SUFFICIENT TIME MUST ELAPSE BETWEEN ITS PUBLICATION AND FULFILMENT TO EXCLUDE THE PROPHET, OR ANY INTERESTED PARTY, FROM FULFILLING IT. 5. There must be a CLEAR AND EVIDENT FULFILMENT OF THE PROPHECY.

As Henry Ford once put it, "If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

People often think that the best way to predict the future is by collecting as much data as possible before making a decision. But this…is like driving a car looking only at the rearview mirror-because data is only available about the past.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

If we can't see beyond what's close by, we're relying on chance—on the currents of life—to guide us. Good theory helps people steer to good decisions—not just in business, but in life, too.

She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

es mejor estar preparados para lo peor y es de sabios aprender a caminar antes de perder el aliento.

is almost a certainty that a well-planned offense will defeat an unplanned defense every single time.

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future

Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.

anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past

I watched, with the stark lucidity of a future recollection (you know—trying to see things as you will remember having seen them)

Focus on the big picture, not the numbers.

no debemos permitir que lo que podemos hacer ahora condicione nuestro punto de vista sobre lo que se necesita hacer para ganar mañana. Nuestro enfoque es de pizarra limpia».

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

To see things in the seed, that is genius