Quotes About Foresight

Even if we could memorize the map, it's hard to know where we're going without having seen inside ahead of time.

The world is never ready for any innovation," he grumbled. "The vast majority of people stubbornly cling to the past until people possessing foresight and a sense of adventure break a trail and bring them into the future.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

Very. I ground the lenses myself. The left gives you hindsight; the right, foresight.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

Don't tie yourself in knots trying to predict the future.

I could see, already, how this was going to end. "You'll have checkmate in three moves... Luckily for me," I told him, my fingers closing around my own queen, "I'll have checkmate in two.

He saw dozens of permutations in how things could play out, planned for every eventuality, strategized for each and every possible future.

I've built three different companies from the ground up. You don't achieve what I have achieved without an eye to potential eventualities. Potential risks. Frankly, young man, I expected Skye to tell you about me years ago.

Ik zag nu al hoe het zou aflopen. 'Over drie zetten zet u me schaakmat.' ... 'Maar gelukkig,' zei ik, terwijl ik mijn eigen koningin van het bord plukte, 'zet ik u in twee zetten schaakmat.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

My first ancestor, Abjar son of Abjar, mounted on his horse outside the city walls, had stared back at the tongues and shouted, After me, the deluge!

God punishes sins, but the world I see only punishes lack of foresight and blunders.

Es una tontería lamentarse de una desgracia con veinte años de anticipación.

Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones. Before

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

Artemis ducked. Cudgeon didn't. Guess what? Artemis was smarter.

Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana.

In every situation, consider what precedes it and what may follow—then act. If you act rashly, without regard to consequences, you may defeat your purposes.

Be sure to foresee whatever can be foreseen by planning. Observe and avoid, long before it happens, anything that is likely to do you harm. To effect this your best assistance will be a spirit of confidence and a mind strongly resolved to endure all things. He who can bear Fortune, can also beware of Fortune. At any rate, there is no dashing of billows when the sea is calm. And there is nothing more wretched or foolish than premature fear. What madness it is to anticipate one's troubles!

On the other hand, those who reject the present and fix their eyes and hearts on things to come have a faculty for detecting the embryo of future danger or advantage in the ripeness of their times.