Quotes About Foresight

I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.

Ah can look through muddy water and see dry land.

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I'd got 'Downton Abbey' when I was 22.

When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

Could the Comte de Vandenesse have seen himself, three years later, the brother-in-law of a Sieur Ferdinand DU Tillet, so-called, he might not have married his wife; but what man of rank in 1828 foresaw the strange upheavals which the year 1830 was destined to produce in the political condition, the fortunes, and the customs of France?

We have within us an inward power of sight, an eye of the soul which foresees catastrophes; and the repugnance that comes over us against the fateful being is the result of that foresight. Though religion orders us to conquer it, distrust remains, and its voice is forever heard.

While dreaming of the fulfilment of his schemes, he always overlooked the means of attainment. "When my son has children," said his other, "he will want them born grown up.

You are like the peasant," said Sallenauve, laughing, "who, expecting the end of the world, did not sow his wheat.

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies—at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else

People who see what's coming have faulty chronology, that is all.

Most people strive to adjust their portfolios based on what they think lies ahead. At the same time, however, most people would admit forward visibility just isn't that great. That's why I make the case for responding to the current realities and their implications, as opposed to expecting the future to be made clear.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

The best ideas are those that create a new mind-set or sense a need before others do, and it takes an astute investor to recognize an idea that not only is ahead of its time but also has long-term prospects.

Living in the same city as Microsoft, I'm only too aware that, even in low-technology businesses like coffee, the Next Big Thing could knock the dominant player into second place tomorrow. I keep pushing to make sure that Starbucks thinks of the Next Big Thing before it has even crossed anybody else's mind. In fact, Don Valencia is working on it even as I'm writing this book.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

Few at this point had the foresight to realize that the path laid out by Providence led into the abyss.