Quotes About Foresight

Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

The people you listen to are a preview of the future you.

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved.

What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind