Quotes About Foresight

If your vision is for a year, plant wheat. If your vision is for ten years, plant trees If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people. CHINESE PROVERB

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties -- that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sight, nor with the mind's eye's visions, nor with madness.

Know your enemy," my mother once told me. "Know them so you can be prepared to survive them.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

We're always skating to wherever the puck is going.

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

It's not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It's about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

My business is to prevent the future.

After every move, ask yourself what does my opponent want to do to me, and how can I prevent it?

I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

I really try to plan out my dinners in advance.

I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.

While infusing technology with humanity, we are trying to make sure it's used for good and also trying to foresee some of the ways it can be used in a bad way and eliminate those.