Quotes About Foresight

Today is that Tomorrow that we thought about yesterday.

The most efficient way to lose a fight is to act without knowing your enemy. First of all observe before acting.

The lost opportunities of life are contained in the might haves, should haves, would haves, and could haves.

To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.

Any sage will tell you the secret to longevity is to outlive your predictions and see them to fruition. You cannot gloat from the grave.

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Don't be a person who has to look back and wonder what they would have or could have had. No one lives forever.

If you are not planning for success, then you are planning for failure.

If the past was what we were meant to see, then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing, only at different times.

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

That moment when you give someone advice, they don't listen to you, then you sit back and watch everything you predicted happen.

From a certain age onwards vanity and wisdom combine to ensure that the things we desire the most are those that seem not to matter to us. But in love, simple foresight—which is probably not real wisdom—forces us to develop this talent for duplicity early in life.

I wish that one of us had been endowed with some mystical gift of prescience that would have warned us off this train wreck. But you make your decision with the best information you have at the time.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

It's easy. Everybody else on the field, they look where the opposing line is. I look where they're going to be. Then I just head somewhere else." —BARRY ADAMS, RUNNING BACK FOR THE CHICAGO BEARS, ON HOW HE WAS ABLE TO RUSH 2,437 YARDS IN A SINGLE SEASON, SHATTERING THE PREVIOUS RECORD (2,105, BY ERIC DICKERSON IN 1984)

Look at a chessboard. Even the most elegant of wins required sacrifice.

The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

If I can see the future, then what does that mean? It would be like knowing the end of a story right from the start, almost as if you were reading it backwards. And who wants to know how their own story ends?

Before beginning, prepare carefully

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.