Quotes About Foresight

Just a month from this day, on the twentieth of September, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study, at ten o' clock at night, longing to die, weary of incessant insight and foresight, without delusions and without hope.

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.

If you're trying to avoid one move that you don't think is going to work out, don't then settle for a different move that maybe doesn't check all the boxes. Be true to the philosophy and understand the bigger picture. There's always another day to fight.

Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential loss of market share in the mobile space led them to the Android acquisition.

Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

Till then fool is alive ,clever will survive.

As the ancientsSay wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,And look before you ere you leap;For as you sow, ye are like to reap.

He who does not look forward remains behind.

Speak again with Messer Simone and fish up what you can. Fair weather or foul, it's the part of wisdom to be prepared.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

It was a rare gift she had, this ability to look ahead, through the loss and heartache, beyond the hardship, to see so clearly the possibilities that waited for them. If they could be strong, if they could persevere.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. —CONFUCIUS

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time.