Quotes About Foresight

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

A director without a vision is a catastrophe.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

If many things in the past have gone wrong in the lives of men and in the lives of their communities, it is because both small- and large-scale activities were blundered into without any thought or vision of universal planning.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.

I'm very visionary, very big picture.

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

People with visions should go to the doctor.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

Battles are often won before they are fought.

Quem diz que sabe exatamente como outra pessoa se sente é um idiota.

It's much cleverer to keep out of trouble than to get out.

It is easy indeed to display foresight after the event. In retrospect all fools become wise.

Later, as I got to know her, I'd realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become. I imagine she thought the same, meeting me.