Quotes About Foresight

We shall always be faced with the problem of how to plan for an unknowable future.

Fiddlesticks!" Rall replied. "These clodhoppers will not attack us, and should they do so, we will simply fall on them and rout them."58 (on describing that they had nothing to fear from the COlonists of New Jersey before the night of December 25, 1776; when Washington and his men crossed the Deleware.)

The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.

12 seconds represents about as far ahead as you can see details. If you're not in the habit of looking that far ahead, then you should be working on that important technique.

1. Anticipate what's going to happen.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan

God not only sees where you are, He sees where you can be.

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

Winners see the victory before the contest begins and before they cross the finish line. Get yourself ready. SEE THE VICTORY.

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

A good businessman sees where others don't see.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.

It's unwise to presume on the future... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now.

You've got to think ahead from what you're about to say. I might be mad at some guy but if I say what's on my mind, it's probably not going to be good.

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.