Quotes About Foresight

The problem with prequels is you're limiting yourself as to where it can go.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Prophesy as much as you like, but always hedge. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1861

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

Womankind always seems to be able to see a dozen steps into the future, far ahead of what men are able to see. And they have strength where we do not!

Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you foresee that you need them.

Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese philosopher, wrote the now classic The Art of War nearly twenty-five hundred years ago. This book has become the classic on how to achieve victory in the battlefield. He said this about the enemy: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

To stay ahead, always have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)

Imagem vivaz do gênio e do louco: um fita o presente, com todas as suas lágrimas e saudades, outro devassa o futuro com todas as suas auroras.

Um astrólogo contemplava os astros, com tamanha atenção, que caiu num poço. Uma velha da Trácia vendo-o cair, soltou esta exclamação: Se ele não via o que lhe estava aos pés, para que havia de investigar o que lá fica tão em cima!

En hij kan het beste te werk gaan zoals bekwame boogschutters, die wanneer ze het doel dat ze willen raken te ver weg achten, omdat ze weten wat de kracht van hun boog is, het mikpunt veel hoger nemen dan het doelwit, niet om met hun pijl zo hoog te komen, maar om met behulp van dat hoge mikpunt hun doel te kunnen bereiken.

Bilgi prensler yaln?zca varolan sorunlar? deÄŸil gelecekte ortaya ç?kabilecek sorunlar? da dikkate al?rlar ve her türlü çabay? göstererek bunlar? önlemeye çal???rlar çünkü sorunlar önceden görüldüÄŸünde çareleri kolayca bulunur ama kap?ya dayanmalar?n? beklersen hastal?k art?k iyileÅŸtirilemez hale geldiÄŸi için ilaç çok geç kalm?? olur

Prudent men are wont to say--and this not rashly or without good ground--that he who would foresee what has to be should reflect on what has been, for everything that happens in the world at any time has genuine resemblance to what happened in ancient times. -- Machiavelli

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

Hey, say you are looking at a chess board. Is there anything you can't see? No. But are you guaranteed to win? Not at all, because you can't see what the other guy is thinking.

Algunos de estos nuevos pensadores afirman que si tuviésemos un mejor servicio de información, si pudiésemos verlo todo, no podríamos perder», dice el coronel Van Riper. «Lo que mi hermano dice siempre es: "Imagínate que estás mirando un tablero de ajedrez. ¿Hay algo que no veas? No. ¿Y eso te garantiza la victoria? Ni mucho menos, porque nunca podrás ver lo que está pensando el otro".

When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

One of the main secrets of success is the ability to foresee the situation a few steps forward.

Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. . The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.

The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.