Quotes About Foresight

Ve hasta donde te alcance la vista. Cuando llegues, serás capaz de ver más allá. THOMAS CARLYLE

life favors the prepared mind.

quien fracasa en la planificación, planifica su fracaso.

Carl Jung once said that 'your vision will become clear only when you can look

by the time most people figure out what they really want and how to go about attaining it, it's usually too late. That saying, if youth only knew, if age only could, is so true

Corre grandes riesgos, pero protégete con sentido común. Equilibra vivir como si no hubiese mañana con comportarte como si fueses a vivir para siempre

believe that life favors the prepared mind.

Don't waste time on how it starts until you know how it ends

He knew that his actions would at first be resisted and misunderstood by the myopic crowd, but he believed that the force and truth of his ideas would triumph in the end.

Rockefeller always sees a little further than the rest of us—and then he sees around the corner.

John D. Rockefeller had an unfailing knack for knowing who would help or hinder him in his career, an instinct only sharpened by time.

a general marches at the head of his troops," so should wise politicians "march at the head of affairs, insomuch that they ought not to wait the event to know what measures to take, but the measures which they have taken ought to produce the event.

As a result of John's foresight in assigning him to New York, William's career became closely intertwined with that of Wall Street—to an uncomfortable extent, from John's later perspective.

The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .

Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on. I think the person who said that to me

It's possible to perceive what is coming and still be dumbfounded when it happens.

After the event, of course, a signal is always crystal clear; we can now see what disaster it was signaling…. But before the event it is obscure and pregnant with conflicting meanings."6

I believe man will fly and I base this assumption on the fact that God has blessed us with minds that are capable of imagining it. Anything that can be dreamt of will eventually be built. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool. (As quoted by a fictional Leonardo in DaVinci Demons)

There's a reason God gave us eyes in front of our head and not in the back...so we can always look ahead.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18 KJV)

And part of brilliance isn't just solving a problem; it's seeing a problem no one else realizes is a problem yet.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.