Quotes About Foresight

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

Sometimes getting an idea of the trajectory we're on can be helpful and knowing where to go and what to avoid.

The way I work is, I always compose a shot list before I talk to anybody, including my DP. So I'll spend a couple months basically creating the movie in my head, so I have a very solid film in my head, where I know every shot, and I know what the transitions between scenes are.

The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.

That's how I stay on top baby. i look at life from every position. I play from every side. you gotta know what each man on the board is thinking down to the littlest mutherfucker like the pawn

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

The past is the mirror that reflects the future.

Do not disclose ur secret weapon to ur enemy before you use' em

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

When you dig a hole, be smarter than the shovel.

God, whose knowledge is simply manifold, and uniform in its variety, comprehends all incomprehensibles with so incomprehensible a comprehension, that though He willed always to make His later works novel and unlike what went before them, He could not produce them without order and foresight, nor conceive them suddenly, but by His eternal foreknowledge.

When then things to come are said to be seen, it is not themselves which as yet are not (that is, which are to be), but their causes perchance or signs are seen, which already are.

Your enemy is presenting you with new options and challenges every day. If you respond in a wholly expected way each time, you will become predictable, and a predictable enemy is much easier to defeat than one who treats his adversaries to a surprise on a regular basis.

Only the man who could look into the future without worry could thoroughly enjoy the present.

Nur wer sorglos in die Zukunft blicken konnte, genoß mit gutem Gefühl die Gegenwart.

The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'.

Premonitions are there to prepare you for what's to come.