Quotes About Foresight

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Never make forecasts, especially about future.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

If you can't manage the future, you don't have a future.

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future.

And if our future Lies on the final line Are we brave enough To see the signals and the signs?