Quotes About Foresight

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

I typically come into any project knowing what the opening shot is and what the end shot is.

You can't operate by hindsight.

Qui non est hodie eras minus aptus erit. He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.

the hand that counteth its chickens ere they be hatched oft-times doth but step on the banana-skin.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty-year master plan. A fifty-year master plan will change how you look at the opportunities in the present." WALT DISNEY

And what is a futurist? Not a fortune-teller or a soothsayer, not a reader of tea leaves or crystal balls. A futurist is a planner and a doer. Futurists look at trends and innovation. They look for patterns of change. Then they act. Futurists don't just predict the future. They make the future happen.

I saw a man once leap into a pit to see how deep it was, he commented. But no doubt you are wiser.

You really try to evaluate the risks and provide for them. Whether it's going to be a pleasant or unpleasant surprise, you try to evaluate the risk.

What you do to your enemies today, you will do to your friends tomorrow.

The art of war is a science in which nothing succeeds which has not been calculated and thought out.

Even a Mongolian idiot wouldn't dream of trying to go back 180 million years to change those tracks.

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. 

This grieved me heartily; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Let no man despise the secret hints and notices of danger which sometimes are given him when he may think there is no possibility of its being real. 

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.