Quotes About Foresight

Both past and future were disappearing from them, the past because nobody would remember it, the future because nobody could imagine it.

Part of the pleasure has to do with a sense of efficiency, of materials exactly allocated and completely used. Another part has to do with a sense of inevitability, the feeling that someone knew where we were headed all along, even if we and the characters did not.

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. Only

By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves of our past.

For he who can foresee with his mind is by nature intended to be lord and master; and he who can work only with his body is by nature a slave. The slave is to the master what the body is to the mind.

He had the philosopher's disease of seeing so far ahead that all the little pleasant shapes and colors of existence passed under his nose unseen.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

No," said Madison, "not given the immediate future you're trying to keep us from.

Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.

I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.

If you plan for a year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate your children.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count.

To be clear, it's not so much that you're a brilliant predictor; it's that he's a lousy self-evaluator. We're all lousy self-evaluators.

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count. Recall

prospective hindsight" to work backward from a certain future—they are better at generating explanations for why the event might happen.

the fourth villain of decision making is overconfidence. People think they know more than they do about how the future will unfold.

Plans are useful in the sense that they're proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. Bus as for the plans themselves they just don't work on the battle field

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

And remember this: whenever possible, don't fight openly with your enemy. Let them think they've won—and then strike when least expected.

I only ask that we think carefully before we act. Let us not, in our anger, do something we will regret later. It is easy to start a bonfire, hard to put it out.

Well, that's because trust without honesty is blind trust, and blind trust is never wise.