Foresight Quotes

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

If you are training leaders, because you need them, you are too late.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.

There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.

Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

Before beginning, prepare carefully.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

Life is a kind of chess.

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

Forewarn'd, forearm'd.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Little leaks sink the ship.

Not to anticipate is already to moan.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail