Quotes About Foresight

The wise councillor must always prepare for his fall.

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.

Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you.

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.

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.

It is a characteristic of Henry, to run before you to where you were not quite going.

Fighting was chess, anticipating the move of one's opponent and countering it before one got hit.

Act to prevent the worst thing that could happen if you don't act.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

La avaricia, como el amor, posee el don de la visión de los acontecimientos futuros, que presiente y adivina.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,--she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

All of a sudden she thought she had all the time in the world. Pride comes before someone trips you flat on your face.

Im so far ahead, I got to save the last dance.

Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

We look to envision what could go wrong, what will go wrong, in advance, before we start. Far too many ambitious undertakings fail for preventable reasons. Far too many people don't have a backup plan because they refuse to consider something might not go exactly as they wish.

Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful.

Vision is three-dimensional - consisting of insight, foresight, and perspective.

You always imagine you'll savor these icon-cum-nemeses' undoing. You're always wrong.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

Don't start vast projects with half-vast resources.

A lot of nights, and dinners, start like this: some panicked chopping of whatever vegetables I had the foresight to buy, a sheet pan, and my countertop convection oven.

Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out and meet it. THUCYDIDES