Quotes About Foresight

Strategic thinking requires the ability to contemplate possibilities that are not immediately present.

Rather, I believe it is a fundamental deficiency in self-regulation generally and executive functioning specifically—the ability to look toward the future and to control one's behavior based on that foresight.

It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Destiny is not to be trifled with. Do not commit the tragic error of satisfying present appetite at the cost of future fulfilment

It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. If

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Kaybedilen en k?ymetli e?yan?n, servetin, her türlü dünya saadetinin ac?s? zamanla unutuluyor. Yaln?z kaç?r?lan f?rsatlar asla ak?ldan ç?km?yor ve her hat?rlay??ta insan?n içini s?zlat?yor. Bunun sebebi herhalde "bu böyle olmayabilirdi!" dü?üncesi, yoksa insan mukadder telakki etti?i ?eyleri kabule her zaman haz?r.

Kendisinden daha dün ayr?lm?? gibi taze bir hasret duydum. Kaybedilen en k?ymetli e?yan?n, servetin, her türlü dünya saadetinin ac?s? zamanla unutuluyor. Yaln?z kaç?r?lan f?rsatlar asla ak?ldan ç?km?yor ve her hat?rlay??ta insan?n içini s?zlat?yor. Bunun sebebi herhalde, "Bu öyle olmayabilirdi!" dü?üncesi, yoksa insan mukadder telakki etti?i ?eyleri kabule her zaman haz?r.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

As Eisenhower said (in a very different context to be sure, but the point applies here as well), "plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

and to foresee things a long way off

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

The truth is that very few understand the truth about forgiveness. It is not the culprits who need to be forgiven; rather it is the victims, because they are the ones who cause all the trouble. If they were only less weak and careless, and more foresightful, and if they would keep from blundering into difficulties, think of all the sorrow in the world that would be spared.

One must always keeps both sides in one's head; it's the only way to anticipate the moves of one's opponent

In a fairy tale I would be one of the two stupid sisters who open the forbidden door and are shocked by the murdered wives, not the third, clever one who keeps to the essentials: presence of mind, foresight, the telling of watertight lies. I told lies but they were not watertight. My mind was not disciplined, as Arthur sometimes pointed out.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

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

Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.