Quotes About Foresight

They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been—had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes much sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.

What distinguishes the successful entrepreneur and promoter from other people is precisely the fact that he does not let himself be guided by what was and is, but arranges his affairs on the ground of his opinion about the future. He sees the past and the present as other people do; but he judges the future in a different way

But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down.

Preparing a child for the world of tomorrow is one of the most important roles a parent plays in a child's life.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

The lesson is: If you want to see the future, you need to see it through younger eyes.

Her view of the future was hindered because her view of the future did not include enough of the past.

The greatest losses of all are those from missed opportunities.

Most people work hard to get a secure job, focusing on pay and benefits in the short term. What they should do is seek work that will teach them the skills they'll need. Are people looking to where they're headed or just until their next paycheck?

I wonder if people look at where their hard work is taking them. What does the future hold?

I suggest taking a long view of their life.

Jo has given me a splendid rule. He says, when I'm perplexed, just to do what I would wish I had done when I shall be eighty.

When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.

in intelligence work we have to go by capabilities, not by intentions. If a potential enemy can do something to you, you have to prepare for it, without regard to what you think he wants to do.

with work, you can give something the strength at the beginning that it needs later on. Before it even knows how it's going to need it.

it's perhaps better for a prince to learn young that looking before one steps is basic self-preservation.

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

They say not to look back, but if you're not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.

sometimes things need to hurt some now, so they don't hurt a lot more later.

I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out.

Are we never to educate ourselves to foresee such dangers and to prevent them before they happen? All the evidence of history shows that laws unknown and unsuspected are being discovered day by day: as this knowledge accumulates for the use of man, is it not certain that the ability to see and destroy beforehand the threat of danger will be one of the privileges the whole world will utilise?

Hindsight is an exact science.