Quotes About Foresight

Parece que forma parte de la condición humana creer en nuestra capacidad de predicción… y también olvidar rápidamente lo malas que resultaron ser nuestras predicciones.

What looks inevitable in hindsight is often invisible with foresight.

You remember the past not so that it is "accurately recorded," to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.

So, I must take the complexity of the world, reduce it to a single point so that I can act, and take everyone else and their future selves into consideration while I am doing so.

A medida que nuestro poder tecnológico se expande, el peligro que planteamos aumenta, y las consecuencias de nuestra estupidez voluntaria se multiplican.

se puede conseguir algo mejor en el futuro renunciando a algo valioso en el presente.

We learned that behaving properly now, in the present—regulating our impulses, considering the plight of others—could bring rewards in the future, in a time and place that did not yet exist. We began to inhibit, control and organize our immediate impulses, so that we could stop interfering with other people and our future selves.

When people think, they simulate the world, and plan how to act in it. If they do a good job of simulating, they can figure out what stupid things they shouldn't do. Then they can not do them. Then they don't have to suffer the consequences. That's the purpose of thinking.

Sólo cabe progresar cuando se piensa en grande, sólo es posible avanzar cuando se mira lejos.

Believing in chance is like believing in miracles. Both things must assume that God does not know the future. What is a chance? It is something that absolutely no one can foresee. What is a miracle? It is a contradiction, a subversion of the laws of Nature. Both contradiction and lack of foresight imply imperfection in the Intelligence that governs the machinery of the world.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

Heller," he called after me. "I don't know what you have up your sleeve, but I suggest you not bother. Like Sun Tzu said: 'All battles are won or lost before they're fought.

Heller," he called after me. "I don't know what you have up your sleeve, but I suggest you not bother. Like Sun Tzu said: 'All battles are won or lost before they're fought.' " "He never said it," I pointed out. "That's from the movie Wall Street." "Doesn't make it wrong." "Well," I said. "I guess we'll see.

A humble person rarely stumbles, the old ones say, because such a person walks with face toward the Earth and can see the path ahead. On the other hand, the arrogant man who walks with his head high to bask in the glory of the moment will stumble often because he is more concerned with the moment than what lays ahead.

It is important to remain afloat, eyes on the horizon, always. The past is a drowning madman; throw him a rope, he'll pull you in. [Bram Stoker]

The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.

Is that the only reason you want to follow him—because he might be in danger?" "No." Cinderpaw sat down. "I think he may be doing something he will live to regret.

better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger.

Firestar seemed to see the first cloud that would eventually unleash the storm of war.

You're obsessed with the past," Jaypaw warned her. "You want to make sure everything turns out the way you think it should.

The power of three is coming, and the Clans must be ready.

Keep your eyes open, fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I will find you, and you'll be crowfood. - Tigerclaw

Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crowfood.

No sensible man watches his feet hit the ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next.