Quotes About Foresight

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas bring me big ideas to match our future.

1. ALLOCATE TIME WELL AHEAD OF TIME

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

You need to be aware of the qualities of every striker you face, as I always am, but sometimes you need to be smart and more than 100% ready for anything.

I consider that part of my job as a pro: to know who you're up against and how the attacking players play, what kind of characteristics they have, their qualities, how they move, their preferred foot.

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

Tell a woman it's going to rain, and she'll get out the umbrellas. Well, in the matter of money, there's always the chance of rain ahead.

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.

I'm a futures man.

I'm always a big-picture kind of gal. I always think in the long term, and I like to see things through from beginning to end in my head.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

When I started 'City of Bones,' I knew exactly what was going to happen in 'City of Glass.' When I first started the six-book series, I thought of it as a three-book series.

Uno sa sempre qual e' la sua decisione prima ancora di averla presa. In realta', lo sa fin dall'inizio. Ecco perche' i consigli non servono a niente.

Such are the limitations of the common mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men can discern through the glitter and dazzle of present prosperity the dark outlines of approaching disasters, even though they may have come up to our very gates, and are already within striking distance. The yawning seam and corroded bolt conceal their defects from the mariner until the storm calls all hands to the pumps.

Where one did not suffer with day to day problems because they were solved before hand in ones imagination.

It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.