Quotes About Foresight

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don't see.

Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

He had a feel for it, the capacity to stir a headful of unrelated facts until they congealed into a pattern arrowing the future. Dutch

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. HELEN KELLER

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

It is better to be prepared for the rock that doesn't fall than to be hit on the head by the one that you didn't expect.

But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.

Perhaps animals are smarter than men, he thought, taking only what they need to live today leaving something for tomorrow.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

future selves as we focus on gaining short-term pleasure at the cost of long-term benefits.

Richard was a smart guy, with lousy judgment.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

La cautela es siempre la herramienta de la sabiduría.

Are you expecting someone to poison you?" he said, somewhat taken aback. "Not really. But it seems to me that if you wait around until you know you need an antidote, it's probably too late to pick one up.

Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo.

There is a vast difference between having some coin and no coin. There is a feeling of helplessness that comes from having an empty purse. It's like seed grain. At the end of a long winter if you have some grain left you can use it for seed. You have control over your life. You can use that grain and make plans for the future. But if you have no grain for seed in the spring, you are helpless. No amount of hard work or good intention will make crops grow if you don't have the seed to start with.

No se trata de ser o no culpable —razonó Manet—. Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo. Wilem asintió con gesto grave. —En mi tierra decimos: el clavo más alto es el que primero recibe el martillazo. —Arrugó el entrecejo—. En siaru suena mejor.