Quotes About Foresight

I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bear to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here.

How often I find myself called wrong,' Churchill had written to his wife on 17 April 1924, 'for warning of follies in time.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

Do you tell me that we have to sit down underthis? Do you say that no one can ever get level withthis king-devil?" "No, I don't say that," said Holmes, and his eyes seemed to be looking far into the future. "I don't say that he can't be beat. But you must giveme time—you must give me time!

Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Courage, however, may also be explained as a readiness to meet ills that threaten at the moment, in order to avoid greater ills that lie in the future; whereas cowardice does the contrary.

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

Sometimes you know something is going to happen, even though they are ample opportunities to prevent it. Even though you don't want it, you know it's inevitable.

We cannot control events, Samuel Adams liked to say. The trick, he revealed that summer, "is to foresee as far as we are able, prepare for, and improve them.

History is that thing that, in hindsight, one always saw coming; a few seem able to glimpse it before it has settled on its destination

Think with the end in mind. Before you go on a trip, you determine your destination and plan out the best route. Before you plant a garden, you plan it out in your mind, possibly on paper. You create speeches on paper before you give them, you envision the landscaping in your yard before you landscape it. You design the clothes you make before you thread the needle.

If you adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglects the goose, you will soon be without the asset that produces golden eggs. On the other hand, if you only take care of the goose with no aim toward the golden eggs, you soon won't have the wherewithal to feed yourself or the goose.

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree.

Dumas Malone says it perfectly: "Jefferson's vision extended farther and comprehended more than that of anybody else in public life, and, thinking of himself as working for posterity, he was more concerned that things should be well started than that they be quickly finished.

I sometimes think the biggest price we pay for war is what might have been.

Do not do what you want to do, but what you judge your enemy least wants you to do

In a fight, do not do what you want to do, but what you judge your enemy least wants you to.

Someday I will teach you how to plan and administer an attack on a fortification. You don't just drive up to it, you idiot. What did you think would happen?

stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

Lots of people have got a little of what I call the shining, but mostly it's just a twinkle---the kind of thing that lets em know what the DJ's going to play next on the radio or that the phone's gonna ring pretty soon.

Sometimes you think you can see around corners, and maybe you can.

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!