Quotes About Foresight

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

While most game developers are focused entirely on what they're shipping in a year or two, a technology developer like Epic has to look much further out and plan many years ahead.

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight Programme, run by the Government Office for Science, helps in the development of this thinking.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

and if you're not prepared, you better believe someone else will be. Your loss will be their gain.

Life without a plan is a life without expectations.

People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

Power without foresight leads to disaster.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy!

The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."

If you can develop the high-level policy without committing to the details that surround it, you can delay and defer decisions about those details for a long time. And the longer you wait to make those decisions, the more information you have with which to make them properly.

A stitch in time saves nine. The early bird catches the worm. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do

The easiest kind of prophecy," he said, "is the kind that predicts things that have already happened.

Law 35: Master the art of timing "Never seem to be in a hurry – hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time. Always seem patient, as if you know that everything will come to you eventually. Become a detective of the right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times, the trends that will carry you to power. Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe, and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition.

Act before it becomes impossible to disentangle one strand of misery from another, or to see how the whole thing started.

When you see several steps ahead, and plan your moves all the way to the end, you will no longer be tempted by emotion or by the desire to improvise. Your clarity will rid you of the anxiety and vagueness that are the primary reasons why so many fail to conclude their actions successfully. You see the ending and you tolerate no deviation

There are very few men—and they are the exceptions—who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.

Conoce  a tu presa,  y  elígela con cuidado. No pier- das tiempo en la caza menor: los conejos que caen en la trampa, el visón preso en el cepo perfumado. Desafío es placer.