Quotes About Foresight

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

There aren't enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

We read the future by the past.