Quotes about Foresight

Lord, use us to heal the broken systems. Equip us with wisdom and foresight. May our lives interrupt injustice with your grace. Amen.

Best way to predict your future is to create it.

They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They begin with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Everyone should realize that today the average person lives to be about eighty years of age, the first twenty to twenty-five of which are used to either prepare oneself educationally — or not. For those who prepare well, about sixty years shall follow to reap the benefits; but for those who fail to prepare, there are sixty years to suffer the consequences.

Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish".

Which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Luke 14:28

Figure out where you want to go; then work backwards from there.

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.

Making Congress into a less crisis-driven institution starts with electing members of Congress who can take the long view.

The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.