Quotes About Foresight

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

Planning is bringing the future into the present.

The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

It's hard to imagine yourself in the future. It's why people do so many dumb things, because they're mired in the moment. Smoking, drinking, making disastrous marriages, putting off medical tests. The reason we've made a mess of the planet is that being its stewards required us to imagine not our own futures but those four or five generations removed.

The reason we've made a mess of the planet is that being its stewards required us to imagine not our own futures but those four or five generations removed.

Looking ahead is far more constructive than looking behind, said Robinton. He held his clenched fist up. I'd all the facts in my grasp and I couldn't see the water for the waves.

Los hombres podían ser increíblemente tontos a veces, darse de bruces con lo evidente y aun así no verlo. Bien

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Old age had taught me to respect danger.

It occurred to him, not for the first time, that prophetic dreams were not much use if their meaning emerged only in hindsight.

Winners understand that taking that pain now prevents a lot more pain later.

Whoever wants to know how it's all going to end before it actually does? Only poets and madmen, I would think.

Mayhap not, but a king ought to be far-sighted enough to realize that if reforms are inevitable, better he be the one to carry them out.

But in looking to understand the forces that have made us and nearly unmade us, and in hoping to recognize possible future sources of conflict in the new millennium, we have to realize that sometimes the best crystal ball is a rear-view mirror.

In looking to understand the forces that have made us and nearly unmade us, and in hoping to recognize possible future sources of conflict in the new millennium, we have to realize that sometimes the best crystal ball is a rearview mirror.

Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before.

Life favors those who are prepared

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.