Quotes About Foresight

But in the end, you can't kill what you can't see coming . . .

saw it coming. See, they built me too good. They didn't figure in

Tomorrow belongs to those who hear it coming.

Other generations perceived a plethora of swords hanging over their heads. But generally what they feared were shadows, for neither they nor their gods could actually end the world. Fate might reap an individual, a family, or even a whole nation, but not the entire world. Not then. We, in the mid-twenty-first century, are the first to look up at a sword we ourselves forged, and know, with absolute certainty, it is real...

At Honeywell, we asked business leaders to think not just about the next five years when they presented strategic plans, as they traditionally did, but also to craft the following fiscal year's plan.

In challenging other leaders intellectually, I strove specifically to push them beyond the incrementalism that usually exists inside organizations—the tendency to consider the short-term implications of a decision exclusively and to ignore the long term.

Wise are you, indeed," the fox said, "to know what is not possible before you have made the attempt.

Datum: At least one-third of ancient rulers' seers and magicians were in fact fired or killed early in their tenure because it emerged that the bulk of what they foresaw or intuited was irrelevant. Not incorrect, just irrelevant, pointless.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

He had tried to catch her out, but always she thought ahead of him. Her wits moved quick. The snow leopard was sharper than the black bear.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

Lo que hemos ganado por las armas en medio año —dijo Moltke— debemos protegerlo con las armas por medio siglo, si queremos que no nos lo vuelvan a arrebatar».

he would in any case have saved the British Army in France from the futile slaughter of May, and possibly even discouraged the French from the long and frightful follies of their Spring offensive in Artois in which they squandered nearly a quarter of a million men.

The best method of acquiring flexibility is to have three or four plans for all the probable contingencies, all worked out with the utmost detail.

By this time next year we shall know whether the Prime Minister's view of Herr Hitler and the German Nazi Party is right or wrong. By this time next year we shall know whether the policy of appeasement has appeased, or whether it has only stimulated a more ferocious appetite.