Quotes About Foresight

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

Much of the email we use today is based on what I foresaw in 1978.

Sometimes, actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member, you can read the actor.

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.

I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else.

Don't get so caught up in looking behind you forget to look ahead.

It ain't a vision if it's not conceivable in 20 years it was a hunch

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity. – Arabian Proverb

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.

survival-oriented intelligence was too stupid to recognize and foresee its existence ahead of time.

Do not grab pawns at the expense of development or position.

It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight. There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end

It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight,' Rushton said. 'There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end.

He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow.

Jego [cesarza] zadanie to prowadzi? t? wojn?, która w danej chwili si? toczy, i co najwy?ej pomy?le? jeszcze o nast?pnej.

hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.

A leader must be able to see the end results of the policies and methods he or she advocates. Responsible leadership always looks ahead to see how policies will affect future generations.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying "Why?