Quotes About Foresight

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.

You cannot change strategy due to a trend.

We were the first state in America to open our doors to publicly supported higher education. We had the foresight to create the Research Triangle Park. And through the efforts and sacrifices of all our citizens, we have built a state where anyone would be glad to raise a family.

Forecasts have been fundamental to mankind's journey from a small tribe on the African savannah to a species that can sling objects across the solar system with extreme precision.

The best way to find the opportunity in the future is to prepare yourself for it today.

If your vision is great, you become great.

Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities.

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you've got coming.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.

Think beforehand about afterwards — whatever you decide to do, think ahead about the consequences.

Information about the future is much more valuable and interesting than information about the past.

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.