Foresight Quotes

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

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.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.

If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it

Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.

The mind can never foresee its own advance

You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.

We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.

Will, is the precursor of possibility, and the foresight of potential.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. . The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.

In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong.

The future is not about a single mind that sees or predicts - it is about the many.

No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.

Every invention began as an imagination.

I can foreseen the fulfillment of my the visions.

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don't utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the competition will.

You know what happens to me!