Quotes About Foresight

Uno puede condenar a sus enemigos, pero es más prudente conocerlos.

He had to know who he'd be fighting if the time ever came to—he had to find out who they were. . . .

so great was his feeling of rightness that he could ignore the dark shadow of the future.

Just because some people saw the handwriting on the wall didn't mean they could get anyone else to read it too.

You can't look too far ahead. Do that and you'll lose sight of what you're doing and stumble. I'm not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You've got to look ahead a bit or else you'll bump into something. You've got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what's ahead. That's critical, no matter what you're doing.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

The only way to understand what's really fair is to take a long-range view of things.

If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.

Dig your well before you're thirsty

Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.

No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.

I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.

It sounds crazy, but even in the first plan that I wrote up, I mentioned AOL, Yahoo and hotmail, knowing we would be big. And its crazy to think that it happened.

There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.