Quotes About Foresight

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

No matter how great a gift or skill, it's impossible to foresee every outcome.

And always while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light, and ofttimes there's a treachery in it.

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

The sons of dreams outlive the sons of seed.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

Do today what will profit you tomorrow. Avoid forever what did not profit you yesterday.

Never cut down a tree whose shade you might need tomorrow.

The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently.

Today is tomorrow's stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder.

The rook is my favourite piece,' she said. 'It's the one that you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen, and the knights, and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But it's the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.

The rook is my favorite piece. It's the one that you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen and the knights, and the bishop because they are the sneaky ones. But it's the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.

And Nora smiled as she stared at all the pieces she still had left in play, thinking about her next move.

Always keep your eyes on the horizon, but don't be afraid to tack with the wind. Take the two steps forward when you can, and don't worry about the one step back, as long as it's only a tactical retreat.

You know, those dead white guys, they were pretty smart, they sure had some vision. They couldn't possibly tell what was going to happen in two-hundred years, but they knew we'd need guns to deal with it, eventually.

These people build as if they were immortal and eat as if they were to die instantly.

taught many important lessons: to flatter one's opponent, to lay traps and to see them laid, to be bold and to restrain one's tendency to boldness, to appear naïve when in truth one is alert, to see the future many moves ahead and to discover that decisions always have consequences.

If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining

he knew the answers to questions you hadn't even got around to asking yet.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.

Be clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you!