Foresight Quotes

• 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

  Love, Motivational, Sacrifice

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• Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

  Karl Schroeder

  Surprise, Predicting The Future, Minimizing

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.83, Verso

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• The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

  Robin Sharma

  Real, Life Is, Hindsight

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• Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

  Henry Ford

  Two, Important, Quality

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• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.144, Best Books on

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• ‎"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mistake

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• 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

  Long, Essentials, Looks

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.73, Cornell University Press

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• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Thinking, Self

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

  Confucius

  Trouble, Plans, Doorstep

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• 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

  Business, Exercise, Occupation

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• One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Educational, Thinking, Vision

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• The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

  William S. Burroughs

  Reality, Way, Faces

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.

  Eric Ries

  Successful, Entrepreneur, Tools

  FaceBook post by Eric Ries from Dec 08, 2016

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• Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

  Evan Esar

  Sight, Planning, Hindsight

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• Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

  Ian Lowe

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

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• A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

  William Rosenberg

  Passion, Imagination, Leader

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• One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

  Jim Butcher

  Preparation

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.131, Penguin

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• Forethought spares afterthought.

  Amelia Barr

  Planning, Forethought, Spares

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres

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• In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

  Ed Koch

  Advice, Action, Primitive

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• Vengeance has no foresight.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Vengeance

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• Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Learning, Technology, Perception

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

  Thomas Tusser

  Looks, Leap

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.221

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• Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on … the world of beauty around us.

  Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

  Eye, Looks, World

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