Quotes About Foresight

Never ever hold anyone/someone in contempt i.e. never ever despise/disregard anyone regardless of his or her colour/race/religion/tribe/language. Because, the very person who you're despising/disregarding presently is most likely to rule over you someday e.g. Barack Obama/Michelle Obama/Goodluck Ebele Jonathan among others.

True leadership is all about being verbally and attitudinally positive or active, humble, compassionate, passionate, foresighted, pragmatic and proactive simultaneously. Yes! that is it and that is that. ~Emeasoba George

Vision 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. Permit me to tell you this, whoever that has the ability to see, think or plan like that is a visionary person or leader. Anyway, are you a visionary person or not? -Emeasoba George

What lies before you matters more than whatever that lies behind you. In other words, whatever you think that you have lost in the past is nothing to be compared to what is obtainable for you in the future. Now that implies, you have to disregard your past life or past glory. And do regard only the fabulous future ahead of you. For, believe you me. What the future holds in stock for you is better off than whatever you think you have lost previously. -Emeasoba George

A man who sees too far, who is contemporary with the whole future, can no longer act or even move. . . .

The unprepared will eventually be destroyed; ignorance is no hiding place.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

None but the dupes, who fondly imagine that they are useful to their like, can interest themselves in laying down rules for political guidance amid events which neither they nor any one else foresees, nor ever will foresee.

People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you're all equally sure that you're at the beginning of something good. That's how it is when you meet people you're going to be with for a long time.

You were attacking the enemy skillfully and subtly," Ileana went on, "but at the same time you could not have known that the bats would play a leading part in you offensive." "If it had not been the bats, it would have been something else," Vladilas said. "But I knew eventually you would be mine, as I wanted you to be.

The people who get places in life are the ones who stay ahead of the game.

Know your enemy as though you are planning for an invasion; determine when and where they are likely to attack and be ready to refute their messages.

The Brunswick Manifesto, rather than accomplishing Louis XVI's rescue, paved the way to the guillotine, which could have been foreseen if Karl Wilhelm had given the matter any forethought, but thinking ahead is given to chess players, not to autocrats.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip, and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.

In times of uncertainty or danger, when the net is cast, plan ahead or plan to think fast!

The good news is you don't need to be brilliant to be wise. The bad news is that without wisdom, brilliance isn't enough.

The ancient poet Philostratus said, "For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.

It would seem that Caesar's recurrent and deep-rooted fault was his concentration in pursuing the objective immediately in front of his eyes to the neglect of his wider object. Strategically he was an alternating Jekyll and Hyde.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

...trout that doesn't think two jumps and several runs ahead of the average fisherman is mighty apt to get fried.

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

I'm always looking to know what I'm going to do before I receive the ball in order to make my team play better.

It's always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done.

Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.