Quotes About Foresight

No doubt the Home of the Future was only one of several possible uses Clark would find for their work. That was Clark's job—to imagine a future for their software.

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. I always ask them, 'Who did you miss?' he said. Which future superstar had they written off, or which future bust had they fallen in love with? If they don't give me a good one, I'm like, 'Fuck 'em.

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally everything you do you're trying to predict the right thing.

Therefore the skillful commander takes up a position in which he cannot be defeated and misses no opportunity to master his enemy.

Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.

Edison was good at making things the world didn't yet have but terrible at seeing how it would choose to make use of them.

plan ahead. '[The] keys to success are to plan ahead, to choose manageable recipes and to cook in batches' (The New York Times). Always tautological. Would you plan behind?

advance planning. The advance in advance planning is always redundant. All planning must be done in advance.

When Sun Tzu said, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer," he had a point.

In this business, by the time you realize you are in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless your running scared all the time, you're gone.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

less than 10% of the writers have a clear idea of where they want to be in five years with their writing career.

The only people who might hope to survive were those who had exercised some degree of caution and had prepared in advance.

What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation.

If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing gifts, stand on your walls and cast stones down on him.

Anybody can look like a genius if they have all the answers ahead of time," Quinn said.

Hindsight may be a wonderful thing, but foresight is even better. What a pity, then, that people have foresight only in hindsight.

Intuition is a funny thing. Sometimes it's a gut feeling, and you look around and just know something bad is about to happen. Other time, it's elusive, and later you find yourself looking back on certain events and wondering how in the world you missed all the signals.

Looking ahead to the time when our children will be independent from us can help us decide how we can be the most effective during the middle school years. This requires asking ourselves not only, "Is what I'm doing working?" but also, "What am I teaching my child?" Think of it as taking the long view of parenting.

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

Nerede kald? diplomasinin 'öngörmek için bilmek, gere?ini yapmak için de öngörmek' kural?? Hareketsizli?in hafiflikten bir fark? var m??

Como hacer vendas para un soldado que todavía no ha sido herido y sentir eso de grato, que se lo está aliviando desde antes, previsoramente.

Y tú ahí de espaldas, de pronto más sabio y más triste que ellos, de qué te habrá servido tanta previsión si al final estás danzando esta misma música insensata.