Quotes About Foresight

The apprehension of God's infinite knowledge should fill the Christian with adoration. The whole of my life stood open to His view from the beginning. He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me. Oh, how the realization of this should bow me in wonder and worship before Him!

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Una precaución de más es una sorpresa de menos.

en la duda, madrugarle al otro. Mejor era un por si acaso que un quién lo hubiera pensado.

If you are smart enough to add letters to math problems, you're smart enough to dig your own grave.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

When teachers would say, 'When you all graduate, you won't have anywhere to go' - I'm the type of person playing chess and thinking ahead. I thought that was a good question. Am I going to be winging it? I didn't want to be in that position, so I set myself up to go to college.

I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

If you want to be a sophisticated investor, you must train your mind to see what your eyes cannot see.

Might have been and could have done, neither worth thinking on.

The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln

New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23

It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future.

Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.

MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It's not right. She should think of the future. HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Take your sensibility and use it as a vision