Quotes About Foresight

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Do you have the same vision of where industry is going as the target of your acquisition? If visions differ, you might get together economically for a while, but then you are going to have problems.

Good policies need to come with good visions.

I knew as far back as 2001 that I would write a book called 'A Visit From the Goon Squad,' though I had no idea what kind of book it would be.

There's a difference between setting goals and trying to live in the future before it even happens.

I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.

I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.

I think long-term, not short-term.

There are players who tend not to look at the money short-term: they have a bigger plan.

It's nice to have short-term to medium-term things that we can apply and see real change in our products, but also have longer-term, five to 10 year goals that we're working toward.

I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'

It's far, far better to be prepared: the more you know about the other team, the better.

escala si quieres, pero recuerda que el coraje y la fuerza no son nada sin la prudencia, y que un descuido momentáneo puede destruir la felicidad de toda una vida. No hagas nada con precipitación; vigila cada paso que des, y, desde el principio, piensa en cuál puede ser el final.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

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.

Sabemos que el pasado, el presente y el porvenir ya están, minucia por minucia, en la profética mente de Dios, en Su eternidad; lo extraño es que los hombres puedan mirar, indefinidamente, hacia atrás pero no hacia adelante.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Forewarned is not forearmed, it is foreshadowed.

Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

People should draw lessons from the past, but those who look constantly behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backsides

I'm finding out that if you have the ending from the get-go, then you're in good shape. Problem is, I rarely have the ending from the get-go.

You know what is before you. The whips and scorpions, the thorns without roses, the dangers, anxieties, and weight of Empire.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

I think the necessity of being ready increases. Look to it.