Quotes About Foresight

Drink it down, baby, and look forward to being sick.

No es cobardía saber lo que es insensato. —Ni es insensato saber lo que es cobardía —dijo Anselmo, incapaz de resistir la tentación de hacer una frase.

The purpose of risk management is to improve the future, not to explain the past.

His high, uplifting oratory during the Second World War was clearly prefigured more than thirty years earlier.

the qualities desirable in a politician, Churchill said, 'The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year Ã¢â'¬â€œ and . . . to explain why it didn't happen.

Spike traps are not my friends. Spike traps are the enemy. I will avoid them at all costs.

Enough talk. Now this ends."" That was my signal to dodge. I was always grateful to enemies that telegraphed their attacks.

But today's gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the past.

I have seen far too many people who upon recognizing today's gap try very hard to determine what decision has to be made to close it. But today's gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the past.

People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending changes early

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Anyone,' Avallac'h wiped his hands on a rag, 'can foretell the future. And everyone does it, for it is simple. It is no great art to foretell it. The art is in foretelling it accurately.

But you don't even know how to destroy things wisely,' Zoltan griped, ordering yet another attempt to pull a wheel out of a hole. 'Why can't you remove the stones gradually, from the edges of the road? You're like children! Instead of eating a doughnut systematically, you gouge the jam out with a finger and then throw away the rest because it's not sweet any more.

A predire il futuro sono buoni tutti. E lo fanno tutti, perché è facilissimo. La vera arte è predirlo in maniera giusta.

our definition of wisdom? The ability to see into the future the consequences of your choices in the present.

The ability to see into the future the consequences of your choices in the present.

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

Being dumb's just about the worst thing there is when it comes to holding high office. —HARRY S. TRUMAN The worst thing a man can do is go bald. —DONALD J. TRUMP

Even one second ahead of you is darkness.

Assume any career moves you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

prudent people look as far down the road as possible when making decisions.

Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

While nobody plans to mess up his life, the problem is that few of us plan not to.