Quotes About Foresight

David S. Young, Chapter: Foresight, the Lead that the Leader Has. Through foresight we help congregations shape an incremental, measurable three-year plan. This is a very artistic process. I use a triangle and have the church members put their vision on the top, the strengths on the lower angle, and the need on the other angle. I put foresight in the center.

Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.

Well, kid, I have seen the future and it shits.

1a) Never throw shit at an armed man. 1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.

Los guardianes saben cómo luchar contra los monstruos, cuando se enfrentan a uno —dijo ella con suavidad—. Yo sé lo que hay que hacer antes de que lleguen. Y después.

We cannot imagine what we cannot see.

the abstract, our brains consider our future selves to be strangers. We're naturally less concerned about future needs than current ones. But if you actively picture Future You, this tendency shifts, and you can make better decisions. Some research has suggested that when people see renderings of themselves at future

we are in the position of a person who knows the ending of a book and who for amusement, is reading the early chapters. We enjoy them once again; but we are hardly thrilled and excited by them anymore, we know what happened

Looking out over the lake, she could not know that in three months she would be at its bottom.

Inside Lydia could feel it: everything that was to come . . . It was far away then, tiny in the distance, but Lydia already knew it would happen. The knowledge hovered all around her, clinging to her, every day getting thicker. Everywhere she went, it was there.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Because anticipate rather than search the bushes. (Car plutôt anticiper - Que les fourrés rechercher.) [Fables1, The Rabbit and the Hedgehog / Le Lapin et le Hérisson]

The great men walk on their shadow: They anticipate the future. (Les grands hommes marchent sur leur ombre : Ils anticipent l' avenir)

He was nothing to me and I could have had no foresight then, that he ever would be anything to me, but it happened that I had this opportunity of observing him well.

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

But, although the future is unknowable, it is not unimaginable. As Ludwig von Mises put it: "The entrepreneurial idea that carries on and brings profit is precisely that idea which did not occur to the majority. It is not correct foresight as such that yields profits, but foresight better than that of the rest. The prize goes only to the dissenters, who do not let themselves be misled by the errors accepted by the multitude."6

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.

At 50 a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit.