Quotes About Foresight

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

You have to be professional and think about the future.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

We can influence the future but not see it.

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

Leadership is the art of the future.

We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.

You cannot plan the future by the past.