Quotes About Foresight

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Tiene el presentimiento de cuál será el próximo paso. Siempre. La única ocasión en que esto no ocurre es cuando usted tiene en mente un problema equivocado, el que no corresponde.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. You do that by study.

Steevens was unforgiving. He recognised that Shakespeare scholarship stood at a crossroads, foresaw that once Malone pried open this Pandora's box it could never be shut again.

for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man)

How much more must an imaginist, like herself be on fire with speculation and foresight!

When making decisions most people ask, 'Will it help me or my family now or the next shareholders' meeting or my next election campaign?' The hallmark of wisdom is asking, 'What effects will the decision I make today have on future generations? On the health of the planet?

I never come on the sets unprepared. I don't come here and then decide what I have to shoot. I prepare myself well in advance.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

You've got to be up-to-date on what your opponent is doing.

Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our new robot overlords, prudence is called for.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

More than stopping the counter-attack when it happens you want to prevent it from starting.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.