Quotes About Foresight

Whereas I like to worry early and avoid the rush," O'Neill said.

But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board

He was vaguely aware that his hand was going to hurt like bloodygthat would be later.

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

Everyone should realize that today the average person lives to be about eighty years of age, the first twenty to twenty-five of which are used to either prepare oneself educationally — or not. For those who prepare well, about sixty years shall follow to reap the benefits; but for those who fail to prepare, there are sixty years to suffer the consequences.

Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish.

While it seems easy to foresee which industry will grow the fastest, that foresight has no real value if most other investors are already expecting the same thing.

The Best Defense is a Good Offense

Staying humble about your forecasting powers

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind.

As the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard noted, life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards. Looking back, you can always see exactly when you should have bought and sold your stocks. But don't let that fool you into thinking you can see, in real time, just when to get in and out.

Looking back, you can always see exactly when you should have bought and sold your stocks. But don't let that fool you into thinking you can see, in real time, just when to get in and out. In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.5

Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out

You should always plan your battles form the enemy's point of view.

Choose your battles," I snarled at Æthelstan. "That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.

Never do what an enemy expects, Dudda. We'll go in at dawn. On the flood.

no one survives long by assuming his enemy is sleeping.

But Alfred could not live long. He was already an old man, well past forty years, and now he was looking to the future. He

The civilized man is distinguished from the savage mainly by prudence, or, to use a slightly wider term, forethought. He is willing to endure present pains for the sake of future pleasures, even if the future pleasures are rather distant.

True forethought only arises when a man does something towards which no impulse urges him, because his reason tells him that he will profit by it at some future date.

Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled … or that day will come on you unexpectedly. Luke 21:34

Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.

If you don't have reservations, you're a fool. You can't go blind into something.