Quotes About Foresight

no forces can't be too great if the evil is to be forestall.

The person who has the longest breath knows in the future what happened in the past

To undo mistakes is always harder than to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight," Eleanor told her husband. "Therefore, we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes." In

Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

The way you build your bed is how you will sleep in it",

Dig your well for yourself, and also for the people who will follow along after you.

There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.

The more you know, the better armed you'll be for what's to come.

Independent thinkers are usually deemed nuts until everyone realizes they were onto something all along

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, The foresight to know where you're going, And the insight to know when you're going too far. Irish proverb

The leader correctly discerns what we correctly think, and sometimes he might just think the correct thing a little bit before we do.

Don't waste time on problems you don't have yet Do you really need to worry about scaling to 100,000 customers today if it will take you two years to get there?

Only fools charge head without knowing what lies in wait. – Scourge

The cards act like an early warning system that lets us choose our future instead of reacting to it as it happens. This is the difference between stumbling around in the dark and turning on the lights. We may not like what we see, but at least we can see it. Now we can make intelligent choices instead of being at the mercy of the darkness.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I have always found plans usless, but planning indispensible

He knew he would need his hands.

It's waiting for us: it seems to know.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.

He that sets his home on fire because his fingers are frostbitten can never be a fit instructor in the method of providing our habitations with a cheerful and salutary warmth.

More clearly than almost any other statesman he beheld the grandeur of the nation loom up, vast and shadowy, through the coming years.

We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.

Today's common sense had a habit of turning into tomorrow's utter nonsense.