Foresight Quotes

Foresight Quote of the day

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Through adversity, not only are we given opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us.

Vengeance is without foresight.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

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.

‎"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

Forethought spares afterthought.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

Vengeance has no foresight.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.

A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

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.

If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have taken this job in the first place.