Quotes About Foresight

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Wer Bäume setzt, obwohl er weiß, dass er nie in ihrem Schatten sitzen wird, hat zumindest angefangen, den Sinn des Lebens zu begreifen.

People must save for crisis. But he should never think that he will be able to avert the crisis by his

I'm not sharpening my knife, nor am I fluffing welcoming pillows. I should mention that I'm not fluffing pillows to kill her with either.

The one who plants a tree knowing he may never sit in its shade has learnt a little about life.

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

A guy once told me that I sound like I'm a little ahead of myself. I can't wait to thank him at the Oscars.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

My history is to find the next big thing early.

I don't know much about politics, but you have to look at it with the bigger picture and think what's best for us now, what's best for us in 10 years' time, what's best for our kids' kids' future - and I don't know.

We can tend to be too ambitious when we're young, and a little blind.

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.

As an assistant you have lots of ideas and suggestions that might be perfect for that moment and time, but you don't think through all of the ramifications down the road. As a head coach it's about being conscious of the whole group and what's best for us long term. And that's on and off the court.

Foreign policy exactly suits Obama's strong points as a leader, which turn out not to be giving the masses a clear sense of direction and hope, but instead exercising good judgment on a case-by-case basis while thinking many steps ahead of the present moment.

Wishes are memories coming from our future!