Quotes About Foresight

Concessions made today mean condemning ourselves to being completely overwhelmed tomorrow. We therefore insist on intransigence of the idea, and a readiness to advance with pure forces, when the right moment arrives. -Julius Evola, Orientations: Eleven Points

Concessions made today mean condemning ourselves to being completely overwhelmed tomorrow. We therefore insist on intransigence of the idea, and a readiness to advance with pure forces, when the right moment arrives.

It's like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it's biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That

We didn't know it was the last days but we should have.

I stared at him. I kid myself that I understand people, that I can predict what stupid, pathetic thing they're going to do next.

better not to piss off this loathsome and troublesome man, just in case we need him one day. Which is why nobody is ever pleased to see me, and why I never have to buy my own drinks.

Why fight with an enemy who flees way at the mere twang of our bow

I trust his senses. If he says that there is danger ahead, then there's probably danger ahead.", FADE by Kailin Gow

When you don't spend or invest in the future, you can't always get away with it.

Short term political calculations of the past must give way to long-term investments for the future.

I did GCSE's and A-levels. I did my finals after the Lions tour in 2009 to get my law degree. So I've always had an eye on life beyond playing, irrelevant of the period in my career.

Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

I think I've always been able to see what's coming, and when I was joining Google, people always said, 'Why are you joining this company?' It was so small at the time. I could see the importance of Google. I could see the way it was going to grow; it was going to become a big company.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Solomon saith, 'He that considereth the wind, shall not sow, and he that looketh to the clouds, shall not reap.' A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.

There is surely no greater wisdom, than well to time the beginnings, and onsets, of things.

Some statesmen have been tagged as having great 'foresight' in their deliberations and activities. Are there any historical records of outstanding statesmen as possessing 'sight' in the ninth, tenth or double digit degree in their particular category of achievement?

It is the awareness of right and wrong, along with the development of language, awareness of self, and the ability to imagine the future, to which scientists generally refer when trying to enumerate the special qualities of Homo sapiens

He too had plans... he wasn't embarrassed by the idea of carefully thinking through what would be necessary to achieve them. You made a picture of the life you wanted to have, and then you worked back from there to the present.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Noi viviamo solo conoscendo qualche cosa del futuro; mentre i problemi della vita o almeno della condotta derivano dal fatto che noi ne conosciamo troppo poco.

and do I really want a son to carry on my idiocy past the Horned Gates