Foresight Quotes

“In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.”

“I foresaw the need for a permanent artificial heart.”

“There is an old saying, 'Don't fix it if it ain't broke.' There is a corollary, 'But do fix it before it breaks.'”

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

“He is a fool who is not for himself a prophet.”

“There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”

“Anticipate grievances and turn them into gratitude.”

“The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present.”

“Look before you leap.”

“I have always been a quarter of an hour ahead of the times.”

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.”

“The challenge is to make sure that we have the kind of peripheral vision that we need to see what's coming at us from the side, and not just what's in front of us.”

“We have to get to a point where we're not just reacting, but we're also anticipating.”

“Good theory is predictive. It helps you see into the future.”

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”