Quotes About Foresight

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

Life is a kind of chess.

One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a strategem.

Be sure I meet not others for the business or affairs, but for gaining knowledge that builds authentic insight and foresight; indeed, it is that fragrances and enlightens the character and life.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

What had they been thinking of, those people then? They had left their descendants almost no water and great mountains of uranium. What kind of inheritance was that? How did they think we were going to survive?

The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.

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Vorsorge ist besser als das Nachsehen zu haben.

One lives in the naive notion that "later" there will be more room than in the entire past.

From our myopia arose our dystopia.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

you should always tie your shoe before walking because u just might slip one day

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

Communities could not subsist without foresight to discern, as well as exertion to effectuate the measures requisite for their safety. Men capable of discerning those measures, are made for authority; and men merely capable of effectuating them by bodily labor, are made for obedience.