Quotes About Foresight

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

Preparation starts after the game before.

Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.

I left Green Bay for Seattle in 1999. I wonder what would have happened had I stayed in Green Bay, where I've got one of the best quarterbacks of all time in his prime.

We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.

I always wanted to just stay 10 steps ahead of everybody. It's just been like that my whole life.

I was always trying to stay one to two steps ahead of the game.

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

I find myself working ten steps ahead of where I actually am on my laptop or keyboard, but I know what the ten steps are. I just haven't got to them yet.

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

If you think two steps ahead, you forget what's important in the now.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines.

Tomorrow Is Just A Dream Away

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school.

Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.