Quotes about Foresight
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
- John Ortberg
The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.
- Joseph Brodsky
Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.
- John Mott
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
- Frank Herbert
You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.
- Frank Herbert
It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.
- Frank Herbert
One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.
- Anonymous
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
- Edmund Burke
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
- Bill Gates
Don't forget your history nor your destiny.
- Bob Marley
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
- Earl Nightingale