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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.”

Ifs Happens Action Next Women Knowledge Morning Laughing Drink Bed Consequence Stones Dare Doomed Ruined Foresight

Author:Margaret Atwood

“**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23”

“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.”

Life Inspirational Firsts Politics President Change Courage Planets Thousand Hundred Lifetime Finished Presidential New Beginnings Foresight New Year New Start

Author:John F. Kennedy

“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.”

Needs Grows Technology Learning Information Perception Let Me Video Display Gorgeous Foresight Gadgets Mesmerizing

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind.”

Knows Giving Said Sometimes Used Understanding Morning Mankind Crime Prove Deserve Give Me Punishment Grandmother Every Morning My Grandmother Foresight Formidable

Author:Terry Pratchett

“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.”

Ifs Way Reality Faces Possibility Happenings Refuse Best Way Foresight Ahead Of Time

Author:William S. Burroughs

“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.”

Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963

“One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.”

Preparation Foresight

Book:Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! Still you are blest, compared with me!”

Men May Littles Stills Pain Joy Grief Prove Vain Schemes Mice Not Alone Foresight

Author:Robert Burns

“Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.”

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

Mistake Foresight

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.”

Should Heart Whole Problem Seems Moving Loses Watches Teach Plans Solutions Chess Boards Caution Maxims Foresight Vigilance Change For The Better Hasty

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.”

World Ideas Earth Asks Wish Water Watches Sun Air Planets Genius Future Skills Universal Evening Ran Native Historian Foresight Save Mother Earth Smog

Author:U Thant

“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.”

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

Success Certain Risk Elements Congratulations Prudence Foresight Abdication

Book:Demonology

Source: Demonology

“The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation.”

Art War Military Essentials Advantage Accomplish Speed Factors Routes Art Of War Attacking Hesitation Foresight Taking Advantage

Author:Sun Tzu

“Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world - water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution - if we tackle them with courage and foresight.”

Source: Jimmy Carter

“Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.”

Knows Feelings Lost Principles Security Military Army Fruit Neglect Heroism Foresight

Book:Instructions for His Generals

Source: Instructions for His Generals

“Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.”

May Fall Evil Trouble Reflection Pity Delicate Foresight

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.”

“In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.”

Ifs Needs Giving Long Enough Joy Night Trouble Sorrow Gratitude Lessons Singing Bird Cease Being Thankful All Night Foresight Gladness

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.”

Thinking Firsts Whole Universe Force Atheism Atheist Idiot Limitless Foresight

Author:Christian B. Anfinsen

“This antitrust thing will blow over.”

Blow Foresight Antitrust

Author:Bill Gates

“But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!”

Men May Art Pain Joy Grief Prove Philosophical Vain Schemes Mice Gang Lanes Foresight Best Laid Plans

Book:The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns

Source: The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns

“Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.”

Stars Figures Concern Fortune Kingdoms Astrology Foresight

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight...[We] ought to show peculiar zeal...in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts.”

“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”

Firsts May States Chance Secret Habit Resources Thirds Affair Appearance Chess Caution Discouraged Foresight Playing Chess Circumspection

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]”

Littles Feelings Age Justice Written Proud Constitution Originals Blind Patriotic Progressive Celebration Documents Foresight Pilgrimage Proclamation Shrines Archives Vaults Framers

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.”

Humans Government Would Be Events Objects Vain Idle Impossibility Foresight Precaution

Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

“It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.”

Want Conventions Foresight Constitutional Convention

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. 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. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.”

Men May Moments Evil Causes Secret Steps Effects Events Divine Periods Consequence Every Man Chains Former Unexpected Present Moment Links Transition Incidents Foresight Sagacity

Author:Joseph Addison

“Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.”

Thinking Men Doe Choices Causes Conditions Envy Neighbor Every Man Live By Foresight

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.”

Want May Ends Vision Journey Willing Incredibles What You Want Dedication Foresight

Author:Usher

“We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.”

Knows World Needs Dream Challenges Sun Feet Rocks Statements Agony Foresight Dogmatic

Author:Edward Abbey

“It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.”

Firsts Remember Steps Knowledge Information Essentials Data Foresight Information Age

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.”

Subjects Effects Inevitable Foresight Hindsight Belittle Biographers

Book:Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

Source: Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

“What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.”

“One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.”

Thinking Vision Educational Foresight

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.”

“Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.”

Years Evil Hours Half Hundred Rage Prudence Foresight Frenzy Deliberation

Book:Liberation tested by Philosophy and Experience. In

Source: Liberation tested by Philosophy and Experience. In

“Through adversity, not only are we given opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us.”

Light Motivational Motivation Opportunity Given Adversity Shining Inner Strength Foresight Given Opportunity

Author:Rachael Bermingham

“There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it entirely.”

Way Action Taken Doubt Essence Climate Disaster No Doubt Behaviour Disturbing Foresight Adjusting Timely Avert

Author:Tony Blair

“Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.”

Foresight Hindsight

Author:Chester W. Nimitz

“If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have taken this job in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Jobs Bits Perfect Taken Risk Little Bit Management Foresight Risk Management

Author:Richard F. Syron

“Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish. -And we’re no different you’re saying- We are, soldier. We possess the privilege of choice. The gift of foresight. Though often we come too late in acknowledging responsibilities….”

Different War Choices Loses Responsibility Struggle Late Soldier Privilege Too Late Foresight Dominance

Author:Steven Erikson

“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.”

Believe Persons God Certain Individual Religious Knowing Grace Particular Eternity Foundation Damn Theologian Persevere Foresight Preventing Decree Foreseeing

Author:Jacobus Arminius

“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.”

Stories Ability Successful Plans Tools Strategy Entrepreneur Foresight Misguided Differentiate Successful Entrepreneurs Success Stories

Author:Eric Ries

“Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.”

Thinking Needs Sometimes Term Bias Short Term Organisation Foresight Rejecting Notorious Suppressing Short Term Thinking

Author:Tom Graves

“The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.”

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

Passion Imagination Leader Vision Share Willing Excellence Enthusiasm Timing Credibility Foresight Passion For Excellence

Author:William Rosenberg

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