Quotes About Foresight

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

Atticus Finch is, you know, he was just his whole - the business of his modesty and his ability to see tomorrow and to try to buttress his knowledge of what was coming for his kids was something that I'll never - as a father I'm not able to do.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

We must ensure that decisions we make today do not come back to haunt us tomorrow.

Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.

Sometimes I wish I lived more in the day, but I'm happier thinking about tomorrow or the day after. The way I see it, there's always a new or next thing.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late.

I try to avoid all mistakes. I try to prepare my players and to put them in the best condition to play the game. If you discover a problem during the game, it is too late. You must anticipate and prepare.

These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.

I don't look back in hindsight. It's too late.

It's dangerous to talk too much about future fights.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

That's the last thing on Earth you should think about... There's just a whole lot of things that aren't going to work for you. Figure out what they are and avoid them like the plague. And one of them is bitcoin... It is total insanity.

Pay now and play later or play now and pay later.

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

A shortsighted person can do little more than follow the road she's on; someone blessed with clear sight sees all the turnoffs she could take—and numerous alternate paths besides, running parallel to the one beneath her feet. One is only lost when one has some perception, no matter how dim, that there is somewhere else one should be.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

Lord, use us to heal the broken systems. Equip us with wisdom and foresight. May our lives interrupt injustice with your grace. Amen.

You don't think before you do, then you're shocked when you end up on the wrong side of a shit pile.