Quotes About Foresight

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have been called fools or criminals in their time they are the roster of great men as far as the record of human history is concerned- and visualized something which can be called universally human and which is not identical with what a particular society assumes human nature to be. There were always men who were bold and imaginative enough to see beyond the frontiers of their own existence.

The most accurate way to know the future is to create it.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

No one should have to look back to see the bright future ahead of them.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

The foreseeability of the world out there varies in systematic ways for systematic reasons.

if you are foolish, foolish is going to stay out.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

But my foreknowledge must not encroach upon their free will. "In order not to impair human liberty, I will be ignorant of what I know, I will thicken upon my eyes the veils I have pierced, and in my blind clearsightedness I will let myself be surprised by what I have foreseen.

time today is worth more than money tomorrow.

if you are smart enough, you can look at anything and think of twenty possible ways that is might be useful at some point in the future, so you just keep it.

We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. —Quarry worker's creed

We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.

I have a really weird thing with my dreams. I've had vivid dreams in the past that actually came true days after the dream.

One of the weird things about being a designer is guessing what the world will want about a year in advance of when they will want it. It becomes almost a psychological test in a way - how do I feel now and how do I want to feel then.

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

I could have joined West Brom or Brighton. What would have happened had I joined one of them? I do not want to think about it. I do not think about it.

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.