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Quotes About Foresight

Los grandes ejércitos transportan consigo lo necesario para asegurarse de que lo que pudiera ir mal no vaya
~ John Lewis Gaddis
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do. (Leroy Eims)
~ John Maxwell
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. —John Sculley Former CEO of Pepsi and Apple Computer
~ John Maxwell
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
~ Ellen Key
In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
~ Benjamin Graham
Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
~ John Milton
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.
~ Iain Banks
He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.
~ Thomas Hobbes
It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
~ James Madison
Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.
~ Daniel Kahneman
It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
~ John R. Platt
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
~ Steve Forbes
Go ahead and eat your bread, a time will come when it shall get to you breath. Go ahead and leave your pen, exams will come when you shall remember the pen!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Don't do something stupid in the present, that can ruin your life in the future.
~ Unknown
Don't trade what you want most for what you want for the moment.
~ Unknown
Everything you do and every step you take today will shape your tomorrow. So be cautious to your actions for a better tomorrow.
~ Unknown
If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions.
~ Unknown
Your past shows you the mistakes you're going to commit in the future.
~ Unknown
Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.
~ Unknown
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
~ Unknown
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. A red part
~ Maggie Nelson
Later, and for the rest of her life, she will think that if she had left there and then, if she had gathered her bags, her plants, her honey, and taken the path home, if she had heeded her abrupt, nameless unease, she might have changed what happened next. If she had left her swarming bees to their own devices, their own ends, instead of working to coax them back into their hives, she might have headed off what was coming.
~ Maggie O'Farrell