Quotes About Foresight

The pendulum he really faced was that of choice. His mind could swing one way, tick, and meet in foresight the shame of swallowed truth and swallowed pride, all the humiliation of an enforced recanting. And if he swung his thoughts the other way, tock, there they confronted the breaking agony of the boot or the rack or the slower destruction in a buried cell.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past--a combination of both.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

Solo un bobo creería que las armas son más importantes que la estrategia y el movimiento! —exclamó la yaya—.

Cleverness never seems quite so impressive when regarded outside the moment

It was nice to make headway; yet in her experience, a fair breeze one day was the herald of a tempest to come.

We need to remember the past so that we can more clearly see where we are going.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

as the sister often foresaw what never came to pass, so the brother often saw much more than was actually the truth.

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

En ello consiste la fundamental diferencia entre la buena y la mala economía. El mal economista sólo ve lo que se advierte de un modo inmediato, mientras que el buen economista percibe también más allá.

O dia de hoje já é o amanhã que os maus economistas, ontem, nos aconselharam a ignorar.

The more information one has about one's dangers the better.

I just say this: that I think it's a great gain, early in life, to know the worst; then we don't live in a fool's paradise.

a prudent archer has always a second bowstring

But you can't put fight into a man's guts if he hasn't any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can't ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don't live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

But of that instant I knew my wife was right, knew that I had made a grave mistake. In that moment I sensed the leech that Anaïs had tried to get rid of. I saw the spoiled child, the man who had never done an honest stroke of work in his life, the destitute individual who was too proud to beg openly but was not above milking a friend dry. I knew it all, felt it all, and already foresaw the end.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

While he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.

We need to be able to answer not yesterday's challenges but to tomorrow's challenges.