Quotes About Foresight

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.

It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do.

Being a visionary is a blessing and a curse, you're blessed to see things other people are not able to see but you are cursed to sit in it alone

He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and uncertainties of the future better

Even if doors are open to the fool, he/she will still be foolish in accessing them.

No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.

Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious

tomorrow you will need it.

Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

Like the Bible says, the prudent see the danger coming….

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.

it depends whether the accommodation of social institutions to the altered state of human society, shall be the work of wise foresight, or of a conflict of opposite prejudices. The future of mankind will be gravely imperilled, if great questions are left to be fought over between ignorant change and ignorant opposition to change.

Preparation works better than optimism

Read on and I will tell you what to do in the future to avoid getting smashed and find yourself with nothing but little pieces of drift floating around in the ship's wake.

Prudence" is practical wisdom or good sense.

A visionless person is a futureless person. Yes! for until and unless you're a visionary, you will hardly utilize and maximize the future ahead of you. Thus, you've got to be a visionary and dare to pursue your visions tirelessly until you realize them.

A visionless person is a futureless person. Yes! for until/unless you're a visionary you will hardly utilize/maximize the future ahead of you.

An attribute of good/true leadership is forethoughtfulness [careful anticipation and preparation for the future ahead]. I mean, a true leader ought to be provident i.e. timely preparation for the future [challenges) is required of him or her. ~Emeasoba George

Any life without vision is meaningless. Yes! because, vision per se gives life a meaning. Besides that, until and unless you are a visionary, you are bound to lack foresight for life. ~Emeasoba George

Envision is simply defined as the state of being able to foresee, think and plan one's future with imaginations, wisdom, insights, foresight and proactive approaches or steps. It also means to picture mentally, especially one's future event or events. It is synonymous with visualize. -Emeasoba George