Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
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.
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.
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
Vengeance has no foresight.
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.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.
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.
What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.
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.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.
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