Quotes About Foresight

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

Time will unveil all things to posterity.

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

The time to build a network is always before you need one.

The space for it existed in me. I knew it the same as other people, but, strangely, in advance.

I can see it's all there. All there, but nothing yet done. I can see it in the eyes, all there already in the eyes.

Mantén a tus amigos cerca, pero a tus enemigos más cerca

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

You know what Confucius said?" "Remind me." " Ã¢â'¬ËœBefore you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.' 

You know what Confucius said? Remind me. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves

Bowman immediately went to work, writing furiously in his notepad. A staff colonel asked what he was doing, and the major said, "I'm making a wish list." If he'd read the scene correctly, he said, "We are going to get called in to see General Tolson in about fifteen minutes, and we're about to get everything we need.

Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water.

You'll be shot, they cautioned. No. I won't be shot. I'm going to shoot them, and then I'll go home. I'll be perfectly safe. I can see the future, and the clouds are lifting. You can see the future? How can you see the future? I know enough now about the patterns of the past to see the darkness of the future unraveling before the golden light of time. Behind the clouds is the dawn. How can I possibly know such things? The fact is, I do. So watch out.

I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from "Alice in Wonderland," in which the cat tells Alice that surely, she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

Remember this: anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN