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• 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

  Hands, Looks, Politician

  Will Rogers (1983). “"How to be funny" & other writings of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• 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

  Past, Reality, People

  Hersh Shefrin (2000). “Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing”, p.110, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Morning, Women, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Mar 08, 2015

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• The trick now is to turn insight into foresight. The trick is to know this about your tomorrow, today... Remember, your future is not coming to you; it's coming through you...change your idea about the changes to come, even as you change your idea about the changes that have passed. Then you can change your experience of both.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Ideas, Today, Tomorrow

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• By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

  Benjamin Franklin

  Secret, May, Playing Chess

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• The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Imagination, Vision

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• We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

  John D. Barrow

  Past, Knows

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• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  May, Forethought

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• Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Evil, Decision, Choices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.210

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• Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

  Henry Taylor

  Mother

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.82

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• 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

  Secret, Divinity, Causes

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.182

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• What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

  Euripides

  Future, Doe, Looks

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Visionaries

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• If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

  Xunzi

  Ease, Sincerity, Ifs

  Xunzi (1999). “Xunzi”

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• 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

  Enemy, Underestimate, Capture

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• Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

  Robert B. Parker

  Writing, Giving, Credit

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• Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Congratulations, Risk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Demonology”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear. We rely more on our own efforts than on those of his Providence, and we think we are doing a great deal by anticipating His orders by our own disorder, which causes us to rely on human prudence rather than on his Word.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Thinking, Order

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1993). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”, New City Pr

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• 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

  Boxing, Endurance, Rowdy

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

  Jamais Cascio

  Stress, Strategy, Turns

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• God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all eternity those individuals who would, through his preventing [going before] grace, believe, and, through his subsequent grace would persevere by which foreknowledge, he likewise knew those who would not believe and persevere.

  Jacobus Arminius

  God, Religious, Believe

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• Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Dream, Men, Vision

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.19, Modern Library

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• And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?

  Gavin de Becker

  Differences, Media, Years

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

  Seneca the Younger

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