Foresight
- Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.--Aesop
- As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.--Marianne Williamson
- Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.--Andrew Alden
- Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.--Henry R. Luce
- Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.--Seneca
- Forethought spares afterthought.--Amelia E. Barr (Jen Vedder's Wife)
- The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.--John Sladek
- The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.--David Russell
- He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.--Seneca the Younger ("On consolation to Marcius" Moral Essays)
- Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.--Charles Caleb Colton
- I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.--Eugene Forsey
- If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.--Chinese proverb
- If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.--Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
- In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen.--Roberta Wohlstetter
- In fair Weather prepare for foul.--Thomas Fuller (Gnomologia)
- In life, as in chess, forethought wins.--Charles Buxton
- Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.--Diana Ross
- It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.--Winston Churchill
- It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.--Anya Seton (The Turquoise)
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.--W.H. Auden
- Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on … the world of beauty around us.--Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer
- Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.--John F. Kennedy
- Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.--Albert Schweitzer (in Albert Schweitzer, ed. by Brabazon)
- May you have the hindsight to know where you've been
The foresight to know where you are going
And the insight to know when you have gone too far.--Irish Blessing
- Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight.--Peter F. Drucker
- The most reliable way to anticipate the future is by understanding the present.--John Naisbitt (Megatrends)
- No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.--Proverb (Ashanti)
- Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.--George Eliot (Silas Marner)
- Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called 'foresight.' It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.--Jonathan Auxier (Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes)
- Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.--Jim Butcher (Changes)
- 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.--Theodore Roosevelt
- Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.--Cree Indian Proverb
- The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.--Eric Hoffer (The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms)
- People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.--Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.--Confucius
- She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.--Mavis Gallant (A Fairly Good Time)
- Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.--Glen Beaman
- There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.--G. K. Chesterton
- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.--John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.--Loren Eiseley ("Man Against the Universe" The Star Thrower)
- 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.--Joseph Addison
- We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.--John D. Barrrow (The Origin of the Universe)
- What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.--Charles Victor Cherbuliez
- What we look for does not come to pass;
God finds a way for what none foresaw.--Euripedes (Alcestis)
- When any great design thou dost intend,
Think on the means, the manner, and the end.--Sir John Denham
- When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. --John M. Richardson, Jr.
- "Where did you go to, if I may ask?" said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. "To look ahead," said he. "And what brought you back in the nick of time?" "Looking behind," said he.--J. R. R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
- The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.--Herbert Spencer
- Womankind always seems to be able to see a dozen steps into the future, far ahead of what men are able to see. And they have strength where we do not.--Roman Payne
- You can only predict things after they have happened.--Eugene Ionesco
- You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.--Will Rogers
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