Quotes About Foresight

the United States, allowed conditions to be gradually built up which led to the very climax they dreaded most. They have only to repeat the same well-meaning, short-sighted behaviour towards the new problems which in singular resemblance confront us to-day to bring about a third convulsion from which none may live to tell the tale.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is a far worse war or one much harder to win.

Dicen que es ciego. ¿Ciego? Tiene el ojo certero del francotirador y él, sólo él, mira al futuro confiado.

Don't look back, Satchel Paige said, something may be gaining on you.

If you want to have a future, don't do anything with no future in it.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

I guess you never think your enemy is as clever as you are.

Don't pick a fight you can't win.

We write that bad ending before we even get there." "Isn't that what makes us human? The ability to look at the present and predict what's likely to happen?" "But we're really not all that good at it, are we?

Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Do you know what the women have a gift for?' 'What?' 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Ah, the women are nearly always right, all the same,' he says. 'Do you know what the women have a gift for?' 'What?' 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Remorse is nothing more than a foresight of the bodily pain to which some crime has exposed us.

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

It is fine to draw on what is on hand, and painful to have need and not have anything there; I warn you to be carful in this. When the bottle has just been opened, and when it's giving out, drink deep; be sparing when it's half-full; but it's useless to spare the fag end.

Seven Wise Men, he tells Gregory: here are their sayings. Moderation in all things, nothing to excess (those two are the same, wisdom can be repetitious). Know yourself. Know your opportunity. Look ahead. Don't try for the impossible. And Bias of Priene: pleistoi anthropoi kakoi, most men are bad.

When no one else could see, he could see: and that is what it means to be a king.

The cardinal used to say, Cromewll will do in a week what will take another man a year, it is not worth your while to block him or oppose him. If you reach out to grip him he will not be there, he will have ridden twenty miles while you are pulling your boots on.

Exactly," he says. "And look, Gregory, it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.