Quotes About Foresight

I see,' said Jerott slowly. 'You've thought it all out.' 'That's what I do,' said Lymond. 'I sit on my brood-patch and think.

Do you regret it?' said Sybilla. 'I would have kept it for you if I could. I did not know, you see, what you were to be.

One of these days you'll go too far, and somebody will murder you.' 'I shouldn't be in the least surprised,' said Lord Peter, pleasantly.

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.

Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the curtain drops without warning and the show is over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

Prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

2. They were endowed abundantly with the natural gifts of intellect and foresight, and with the faculties of the arts, sciences and culture. " 'Hearing and seeing' refer to the experimental faculties. And the word 'heart' in Arabic includes intellect, or the rational faculties as well as the instruments of feeling and emotion, the aesthetic faculties."144

But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.

to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.

Un buen consejo siempre será ignorado, pero eso no es motivo para no darlo.

Perhaps. But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.

Unless you become a big picture thinker, you will always stay where you are.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

Disaster often comes in the long run from suboptimal decisions in the short run

Still, it was vision, or at least vision's idiot cousin.

I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.