Quotes About Foresight

Can you see how worries multiply? Suddenly you are a gifted prophet

My losses have taught me that I must not begin to advance until I am sure I shall not have to retreat. But

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.

pero si no se ve lo trágico de todo se es un idiota.

Es asombrosa esa manera que tenéis los soñadores de no ver claro más que lo que está lejos.

Eso de estar siempre conjeturando cómo será el futuro es una deficiencia humana, y de esa deficiencia surgió el cine.

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.

A few of my sisters have the ability to anticipate catastrophe. When the ground beneath your feet turns to mud, you might find a stepping stone they put there years earlier, for no particular reason at the time.

When you run any organisation, you have to look as far down the road as you can.

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!

You can't start a product simply by building it. You have to know why you're building it, and you might go down the wrong rabbit hole, waste time, and confuse things. Spending long afternoons with a sketchbook or talking through your ideas with other people can save a year in software development later on.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave's coming; it's high, its strong, and it's going to smack him in the face.

Back in 1995, I saw an incredible wave coming. The Internet. I knew I needed to be a part of it no matter what I did.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

Never expect anything, but plan for everything.