Quotes About Foresight

If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little past the far reaches of our foresight, perhaps we would endure our sorrows with greater trust than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown;

But that's getting too far ahead of the story, almost to the end, although the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.

moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun shines; 'T is hard to carry

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

They got Indian vision and can sight back further than you and me will ever sight ahead.

I sometimes think of myself as Fortinbras — ha, ha — in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, who just keeps circling and circling around the action until everything else falls apart, and then strolls in at the end to pick up all the pieces for himself.

looking on the dark side, in some scenarios, is valuable. In the midst of a disaster, the man who loudly proclaims the coming trouble will surely be more valuable than the optimist who sits dreamily admiring the daisies. It

Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself…

Ante tus enemigos, aconsejaba el padre de Rebecca, es tan prudente ocultar tu inteligencia como esconder tus debilidades.

A wise administrator never admits to having enemies, and a yet wiser administrator never has enemies.

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

I like to say that wisdom is choosing to do today what we will be satisfied with tomorrow or later on in life.

If we were supposed to be looking back at where we came from, we would have eyes in the back of our head, but we don't. Our eyes are at the front of us, so we can always look forward.

She considers a [new] field before she buys or accepts it [expanding prudently and not courting neglect of her present duties by assuming other duties]; with her savings [of time and strength] she plants fruitful vines in her vineyard. PROVERBS 31:16

To be careful really means to be wise - to choose to do now what you will be happy with later.

How satisfying it must feel to simply wait for events to unfold as you have foreseen them, Anakin thought. How powerful to know the outcome before it happened. This was what he could learn—and not from his Master. From Palpatine.

As a practitioner of hindsight I know that Grandfather was trying to do, by personal initiative and with the financial resources of a small and struggling corporation, what only the immense power of the federal government ultimately proved able to do. That does not mean he was foolish or mistaken. He was premature. His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he waited on platforms that hadn't yet been built, beside tracks that might never be laid.

He always wanted to leap and tear the throat out of a problem. He took no aesthetic pleasure in measuring a problem and living with it for a time before deciding it was even desireable to try to slay it. In short, he was more quick than wise. He never appreciated the comfort that a worthy enemy could provide.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them.

La prudencia es futuro, prevención, anticipación responsable, deseo razonado. Está diseñada para evaluar el antes de, para que no tengamos que arrepentirnos del después de. No es un freno de emergencia asfixiante, sino autorregulación, juicio y lucidez orientada a no lastimar ni lastimarse. Kant decía: "La prudencia aconseja, la moral ordena". Una asertividad sin prudencia tarde o temprano se transforma en agresión.