Top 100 Quotes About Foresight
#1. There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
Ezra Taft Benson
#2. It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight
Carlos E. Asay
#3. Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. 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.
Benjamin Graham
#6. 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.
Ben Aaronovitch
#7. I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential loss of market share in the mobile space led them to the Android acquisition.
Barry Ritholtz
#8. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
William Blake
#9. 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
#10. God punishes sins, but the world I see only punishes lack of foresight and blunders.
Emilia Pardo Bazan
#11. 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.
Heather Lyons
#12. 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.
Theodore Roosevelt
#13. Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
Kevin Kline
#14. The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
Clive James
#15. And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine
A being breathing thoughtful breath
A traveler betwixt life and death
The reason firm the temperate will
Endurance Foresight Strength and skill
William Wordsworth
#16. She knew that the word providence meant foresight, the future beheld before it was experienced.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#17. At twenty two, he didn't have the foresight to understand how one decision could affect so many others. Now that he's older and everything has settled into a just-tolerable state of atrophy, the options he once had-options that his young students still have- feel like they've passed him by.
Jung Yun
#18. Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
Charles Caleb Colton
#19. Between goal and success, there is one critical thing - perseverance: it is the fundamental belief to always succeed, the determination to turn goal to gold, the greatness to never give up, the foresight to dream that enables you to make it happen.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#20. Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.
Karl Schroeder
#22. Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
Will Durant
#23. Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
John Ortberg
#24. It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
James Madison
#25. I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
Adam Driver
#27. 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.
Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea
#28. Foresight is the cause of Europe's present wars. If one would take pains to forsee nothing, the whole world would be tranquil, and I do not believe that one would be worse off for not waging war.
Abbe Galiani
#29. He'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.
Louis L'Amour
#31. Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.
David Brier
#33. As they do not see, behind the benefits of civilization, marvels of invention and construction which can only be maintained by great effort and foresight, they imagine that their role is limited to demanding these benefits peremptorily, as if they were natural rights.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#34. the overriding thought in my mind is that I didn't have the foresight to say goodbye or thank you to the people I love. That sounds corny, I know, but what's wrong with corny? It has its place.
Colin Cotterill
#36. Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
Usher
#37. Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
Jamais Cascio
#38. Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#39. The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness.
J.M. Coetzee
#40. Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard to, or foresight of, their consequences upon the general welfare of the society;
Adam Smith
#41. Verily this is the very crown of my misfortunes, that men's opinions for the most part look not to real merit, but to the event; and only recognise foresight where Fortune has crowned the issue with her approval.
Boethius
#42. The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.
Nassau William Senior
#43. There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour, but not altering it entirely.
Tony Blair
#44. 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.
Adolph Murie
#45. Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.
Hersh Shefrin
#46. 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.
John Lennon
#47. Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.
Frederic Bastiat
#48. The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more ... this foresight, well or ill used, is the source of all the wisdom or the wretchedness of mankind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#49. All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#50. Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Murray Rothbard
#51. Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones. Before
Emily Bronte
#52. So finding meaning in events is positively correlated with wellbeing but negatively correlated with foresight.
Philip E. Tetlock
#53. Yet we choose to remember history very selectively, favoring foresight over failure.
Thomas Rid
#54. It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly and to concentrate your strength to capture him. There is no more to it than this. He who lacks foresight and underestimates his enemy will surely be captured by him.
Sun Tzu
#55. Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.
John Ruskin
#56. There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.
Scott Stossel
#58. The truth is that people who live for the future are, as we say of the insane, "not quite all there" - or here: by overeagerness they are perpetually missing the point. Foresight is bought at the price of anxiety, and, when overused, it destroys all its own advantages. The
Alan W. Watts
#59. May ya have the hindsight ta know where you've been, the foresight ta know where where you're going, and the insight ta know when you're going too far...
Shirley Bourget
#60. I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.
Christian B. Anfinsen
#61. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.
Paul Gibbons
#62. We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.
Edward Abbey
#63. The only action that has vaster repercussions for the universe than making a life is TAKING one... which is why I'll never understand why most people put so little foresight into doing either.
Brian K. Vaughan
#64. What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez
#65. The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.
Daniel Gilbert
#66. One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#67. An entrepreneur cannot be trained. A man becomes and entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is required for such a display of keen judgment, foresight, and energy.
Ludwig Von Mises
#68. [Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.
Bertrand Russell
#69. Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.
Traci Harding
#70. 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
#71. 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.
Gloria Gaynor
#72. 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.
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. Aphrodite put off her famous belt, in which all the charms of love are woven, potency, desire, lovely whispers, and the force of seduction, which takes away foresight and judgment even from the most reasonable people.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#74. A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.
William Rosenberg
#75. 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.
Malcolm Forbes
#76. Sometimes institutional progress gets thrown into reverse, often when the programmes are attacked by the financial managers, occasionally through lack of foresight and planning and sometimes through what I call 'institutional opportunists'.
Gordon M. Kerkham
#77. 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.
Maria Montessori
#78. 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
#79. Where is the good of planning upon an "if?" To trust is to get ready, uncle says. Trust is better than foresight.
George MacDonald
#80. The whole of life should be a process of deliberation to choose the right course. Reflection and foresight provide the means of living in anticipation.
Baltasar Gracian
#81. From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#82. Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
John Stuart Mill
#83. 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!
Robert Burns
#84. Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.
George MacDonald
#85. One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.
Jim Butcher
#87. Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
Karl Schroeder
#88. 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.
Frederick The Great
#89. The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.
Robin Sharma
#90. I was happy when we were eventually fired, because I was convinced this Internet thing was a passing fad. This lack of technological foresight is why I am an actor.
Amy Poehler
#91. Through adversity, not only are we given an 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.
Rachael Bermingham
#92. Women always think in the catastrophic, and when there is a calamity to rectify that might require a unmarried granddaughter, there older women will always act. Their powers of foresight and vigilance might make any disheveled or nubile young haggage ready for the altar in five minutes.
Michelle Franklin
#93. Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
Grace Paley
#94. It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
Seneca The Younger
#95. there is no such thing as chance. All is either a trial, or a punishment, or a reward, or a foresight. Remember the fisherman, who thought himself the most wretched of mankind. Oromazes sent thee to change his fate. Cease then, frail mortal, to dispute against what thou oughtest to adore." "But,
Voltaire
#97. If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
Q'orianka Kilcher
#100. A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.
Colleen Houck
