Quotes About Foresight

One of the ways to avoid trouble was to see it before it got to you.

Nothing in his life had given him confidence in his hold upon the future. All he had learned indicated that one lived by avoiding trouble, or if it could not be avoided, seeing it first.

When a man has enemies he had best beware, and

A move well planned is a move half-done, and I tried to think through every phase. We

Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next.

What I am doing now is for the future, though it may seem small, or trivial, or boring, to you.

While they thought they were leading me into a trap, I let them go into the trap themselves.

What more can punish a man than to sit and groan as he contemplates what might have been!

All along, he insisted, he knew it would fail and had gone along simply as a tactical maneuver.

From the First Philippic of Demosthenes, he plucked a passage that summed up his conception of a leader as someone who would not pander to popular whims. "As 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.

Lincoln's political grammar always gravitated to the future tense.

Carson McCullers llamaba iluminaciones a esos espasmos premonitorios de aquello que aún no sabes, pero que ya se agolpa en los bordes de tu conciencia.

Cliffords, were not the only people to realise that there were terrible times ahead.' 'What happened to your

What we do today will become tomorrow's memory; and often the past we are now creating returns to haunt us.

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

On occasions, very occasionally, things happen as you feel they will, as you feel in your bones they will.

Which is like writing history backward, if you ask me, fixing the past to fit the present. Hindsight made over into foresight.

Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where youre going?

Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going?

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

To be thin-skinned, far-sighted, and loose-tongued," he said, "is to feel too sharply, see too clearly, speak too freely. It is to be vulnerable to the world when the world believes itself invulnerable, to understand its mutability when it thinks itself immutable, to sense what's coming before others sense it, to know that the barbarian future is tearing down the gates of the present while others cling to the decadent, hollow past. If

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Battles are not won by strength alone!