Quotes About Foresight

Those who rush up a peak without a plan often end up in the valley below - as food for vultures.

Events cast their shadows ahead; before a harsh winter, wild animals grow thicker fur, and the beaver puts on a thicker layer of fat. What kind of times and what sort of tasks can lie ahead for a generation that must think so harshly, even at such a young age, in order to survive?

Hadži?: Gospodine generale, te ?injenice zna i Vrhovna Komanda. A sa brega se dalje vidi, stara je mudrost. General Miši?: Ali pod uslovom da oni na vrhu brega nisu slepi, da imaju bolje o?i od onih što su na strani ili u podnožju. A ja u mnogim prilikama sumnjam u vidovitost onih što gledaju s vrha brega. Ako su im oblaci bliži, ljudi su im manji.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

O be wise, what can I say more?

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later.

My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

We all use the future to escape the present.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

Triumphantly he says, "Did you predict that, Lara Jean?

Anytime you don't have a picture in your head, you're in trouble or will be soon.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Only the stupid conquer in life; the other man foresees too many obstacles and becomes uncertain before he starts.

To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future, he wrote. In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future," he wrote. "In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

When you're in a pissin' contest with a skunk, make sure you got plenty of piss.

In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

hit her where she least expects to be hit. There's only one way to fight, and that's to win. Never attack where the other man is expecting it, when the other man is expecting it. That's where he's prepared his strongest defense.