Quotes About Foresight

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

As the geneticist David Searls observed, "The tendency for an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.

On the other hand, we do often pursue such things with, at the very least, an unbalanced view of the future. We spend more time envisioning the perks that a promotion will bring than envisioning the headaches it will bring.

To fail to plan is to plan to fail.

The magician Merlin had a strange laugh, and it was heard when nobody else was laughing…. He laughed because he knew what was coming next.

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine. I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes. I understand. I am the same about porcupines.

The weapon we throw away today is the one at our throats tomorrow

War later is almost always better than war now.

She seemed to have eyes like a fly, with multiple sections that could see sideways and backwards, and into things that hadn't even happened yet. Such as into Barry Hollis's desk where he had a packet of cigarettes and a copy of Playboy.

have an exit strategy. Just in case your current plan doesn't work, always know what your endgame is and where you're going next.

Why Borrow What U Know Is Already Coming Your Way? ~ Eve's GrandMother

I plan everything. I set everyone in motion, and when the moment comes, I strike. I always win in the end. They never see me coming. Know why? Because I'm already there.

I don't believe in regret. If you regret things about your life, then I'll bet that you're not paying attention. Regret is just imagining that you know what would have happened if you took that job in California or married your high school sweetheart or just looked one more time before you stepped out into the street...or didn't. But you don't know; you can't possibly know.

She was annoyed by her mother's lack of consideration for the rest of the family, not to mention her lack of foresight about the future. Elizabeth was unwilling to talk about alternatives to living alone in a gigantic old house that she might not be able to manage one day, the care of which would fall to Maggie and Jones.

No one can make it rain, but I'm very good at knowing when the rain will come.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

from the outside most people can't tell the rapid exploitation of a belatedly recognized opportunity from deep-laid planning.

It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. " - Anon

Nobody lives long low-rating an enemy. You've got to give the other fellow credit for having as much savvy as you have, and maybe a little more.

it is better to eat when one can, for one never knows when he will eat again.

he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.

way among the rocks. Occasionally he was exposed, but there were no more shots. Either he was unseen, and they were deliberately allowing him to get to the cabin, or they had moved out to try to cross farther up, away from his line of fire, and so come down behind