Quotes About Foresight

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good for tomorrow.

prudent man or woman understands that all of life is connected. He is aware of the cause-and-effect relationship between what he chooses today and what he experiences tomorrow . .

Dream, O youth! Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets!

The gut speaks—and rarely lies—of what is and what is to come.

The Zankli Sacred Prayer: Oh God, I bring before you your children you have gifted with the light. Bring unto them what is yours to give, your to provide, and yours to understand. Bless them with the joy of goodness, and deliver unto them longevity, wisdom and foresight.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Do not listen to your enemy, Odysseus had once told me. Look at them. It will tell you everything.

But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies. I don't know what it is, but I got a kind of feel for the big money.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together

But Catherine was not to be underestimated. Already she perceived Mary to be a threat

epic scale without choosing the ground or the moment carefully enough.

As a novelist, he was always looking ahead, too.)

OH, PLANS, PLANS, PLANS—how we make plans into the future, as if the future will most certainly be there!

It's not like writing a novel. It's easy to know the future when I'm making up the story.

George había sido lo bastante listo para largarse de la escuela lo antes posible. No quería acabar como aquel tipo.

When a mood of excitement pervades a market or surrounds an investment prospect, when there is a claim of unique opportunity based on special foresight, all sensible people should circle the wagons; it is the time for caution.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

Reassuring withdrawals, Clausewitz writes in On War, "are very rare." More often armies and nations fail to distinguish orderly disengagements from abject capitulations—or foresight from fear.

ejército recuerda a la del agua», explica Sun Tzu. Si atacas donde tu enemigo menos lo espera, es decir, «si evitas su fuerza y atacas su punto débil, entonces, como le ocurre al agua, nada se te opondrá».

Sun Tzu deja suficientes vías libres para contentar al zorro y mantiene, a la vez, el propósito y la determinación del erizo.

We know the future only by the past we project into it.

Xerxes tinha razão. Se tentarmos prever tudo, arriscamo-nos a não fazer nada. Mas também a tinha Artabano. Se não nos prepararmos para tudo o que pode acontecer, garantimos que alguma parte disso acontecerá.