Quotes About Foresight

You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future

You are not bad people. You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future.

Lack of discipline is an invader, constantly searching for ways into your life, testing your defenses at every turn. It is a time-traveling bandit that steals from the pockets of the future you and tosses a fraction of that future reward to your present self while keeping the rest.

Information that might be useful—or at least good to know before we open the way again. Forewarned is forearmed.

Ich fürchtete das Schlimmste, nicht, weil ich den Plan der Griechen Zug um Zug durchschaute, sondern weil ich den haltlosen Übermut der Troer sah. Ich schrie, bat, beschwor und redete in Zungen.

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

Perhaps it was a flaw inherent in the inventive mind to have vision but not foresight. Was it that so much concentration went into developing the idea that they could not see beyond it? Or was it an inhibition of the urge to see beyond that allowed them to develop ideas before they could be dismissed as folly?

In her brain she runs a computer program to evade dooms no one has even considered. There's nothing she hasn't thought of, and thought of and thought of, poor woman.

But if you are going to do something properly you have to plan ahead or you will end up cutting the moment wrong. Then events will be all wrinkled and puckered.

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.

Be not bound by the present, but leave nothing to luck.

in the beginning there was hardly any one who sensed that the automobile could be a large factor in industry. The

The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economist sees only what the effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.

Every great achievement was a vision before it became a reality. In that sense, it arose from commitment, not resignation to the inevitable.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Men are often praized for their sagassity, but all the fore sight in the world kant tell a dubble yelked egg untill it itz broken.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.