Quotes About Foresight

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to an end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house

Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to and end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house.

but it is impossible to avoid what is fated; no one can repel it by wisdom, but he who is hasty without purpose will always have trouble;

I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

it is a great thing to do what is necessary before it becomes essential and unavoidable.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

We're much more focused on the long term than most companies.

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

When Dad made a decision, whether it was about family or his own career, the majority of the time, it was for the long term, not the short term.

Steward for the long term. It's not always easy, but you do it.