Quotes About Foresight

Simpletons talk of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future.

If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail." – Benjamin Franklin

Marcel Proust wrote that "what we call our future is the shadow that our past projects in front of us.

Remember, don't burn your bridges—there might be crocodiles in the river.

Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

When you choose to write down compelling goals, you are simultaneously choosing a compelling future. Exciting goals foreshadow an exciting future.

Hagas lo que hagas te arrepentiras.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.

Hild knew where this was going, but questions would only send Begu's thoughts flying in all directions.

Recklessness killed seers as surely as it killed gesiths.

What he has lost is everything that hasn't happened to him, everything that he is not, but might have been.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

History is a vast early warning system.

You're not successful now because of what you planned 10 years ago, but you will not be the same if you plan well for the next 10 years from now-Nyanzi Live

I imagined the United States becoming, slowly, through the combined effects of lack of foresight and short-term unenlightened self-interest, a third world country.

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.

God created man with eyes in the front, not the back of the head, and that means we've got to think about what's to come, not what has been.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1 000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Having a long-term plan--and not casting it aside--is the key to dealing with our fear of loss (loss aversion).