Quotes About Foresight

Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

When the present gets tough, you have to battle through it by imagining an outcome that is weeks, potentially even months, ahead.

The future is our greatest adversary. We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future.

It is very very hard for humans to lift our eyes from today and to go out into the future and think about what could be done to bring the future back to the present. Like ants crawling around on the leaf, we political people only know our leaf.

If the short-term decisions you make damage the long term, you should resist those. But there are many short-term decisions that you need to make to be a successful manager.

Without question, women can act with bravery, foresight, and tactical intelligence.

At some point, if you don't take care of the roads today, it's like any other maintenance issue: you're going to end up paying a lot more down the road.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.

A creature designed to look before and after finds that to do the latter has gone out of fashion and that to do the former is becoming impossible.

Those who fail to plan are planning to fail.

Know your enemy. Know the terrain. Know the conditions under which the battle will be fought.

This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier.

muy pocas de las personas de las cuales podrías esperar que lleven las riendas en el ámbito jurídico —políticos, socios senior de los bufetes, legisladores y estadistas, profesores de Derecho, magistrados de alto nivel, líderes de los cuerpos profesionales— están, en realidad, mirando más allá de los próximos años. En estos tiempos difíciles para la economía, el "aquí y ahora" parece estar proporcionando suficientes quebraderos de cabeza.

You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

Maybe we all dream pieces of the future but just don't happen to know it.

If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. - Teddy Sumner

constructively paranoid

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

He could follow someone's mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific." —L. Sprague de Camp