Quotes About Foresight

You must see within your mind first before anyone else can see it with you.

When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Most people see what is, and never see what can be.

Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in which all fleas will have been eliminated and doghood will finally have achieved its full glorious potential

Negli occhi della gente si vede quello che vedranno, non quello che hanno visto. Così, diceva: quello che vedranno.

thoughtlessness is a bad advisor.

How many of us dig our own graves, thought William. We dig them with vigour and determination, unaware of the implications, but with all the conviction of those who do not really know what they are doing, who are impervious to the dangers that others can see so clearly.

People had to be left to make their own mistakes, even if the rest of us could see quite clearly the dangers that lay ahead.

Who wouldn't want to go back in time and correct a mistake, right a wrong, change how things turned out? Who wouldn't want to have another chance to win the girl, or hit the home run? To kill Hitler, or invest in Apple or Facebook when they were just emerging? The

if you allow yourself to rise above a short-term perspective and super-charged rhetoric, the big picture is still looking better than ever before.

I don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine." —Neil deGrasse Tyson

So maybe he had known she was coming.

Predicting black swans, in other words, requires us not only to see the future outcome about which we're making a prediction but also to see the future beyond that outcome, because only then will its importance be known.