Quotes About Foresight

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road.

And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.

For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.

Let it never be said that I court my own death without proper planning.

Every question missed is a potential crisis waiting to happen.

A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

New ideas are so important. The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.

To become a future-teller, one needs only to study history.

We need the patience of the planter. We need the foresight of the farmer. We need the mindset of the sower.

In 1997 I said they were dicks for voting Labour – but nobody was having it at the time. Three years later people are saying – 'Oh, you were right there, Mark.' It's a waste of time, really, but I still do it. Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

Prophets are not honored in their own land or in their own time either. The future bears them out—or it does not.

Yet it is your insight into people that gives you the ability to predict the future