Top 44 Foresee Quotes

Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence – we had a ‘need to know’ system – but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee what elements of our organization would and would not need to know a given piece of information.

Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can’t possibly foresee.

I know it’s TV, but at the same time you don’t foresee that so many people all over the world are going to see it, and have an opinion on it.

It’s a life I would have never been able to foresee for myself, but I’m so grateful for it, and I really just loved skiing as a kid, and it’s crazy how far it’s taken me.

Football is my passion, and who knows where I will play in the future – you cannot foresee that.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.

Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

My path has been, I think, a path a lot of women can foresee themselves taking.

The film ‘Back to the Future’ certainly did a lot to put me where I am today, and I did not foresee that. I just was hoping the film would open successfully, the first one, but it’s gone way beyond what I think most of us have imagined.

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

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

Consensus isn’t just about agreement. It’s about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

I didn’t foresee troubles in my second film.

With any novel that you begin, you can’t foresee how difficult or easy it’s going to be, and you can’t really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it’s all right to keep going – you can always fix it.

I believe, a woman can always create miracles and foresee a lot of things that a man might not be able to do.

But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy’s place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

For most human beings, if what they want happens, it is a success. If what they could not have imagined happens, it is luck. If what nobody could foresee happens, it is a miraculous existence.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn’t hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

I don’t foresee a future where people don’t have some sort of phone that’s like a computer. I don’t foresee a future where those phones don’t have cameras in them. That spells a future where smartphones are the status quo. You have to ask yourself how you allow people to communicate what’s in their lives.

A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can’t foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.

I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

One of the reasons why many British voters chose to leave the European Union was because they distrusted European institutions. Of all the many costs of Brexit, this was one I did not foresee: That it could wind up damaging the nation’s faith in its own institutions too.

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

Now you mustn’t think that I don’t have any ideas for novels in my head. I’ve got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I’ve got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that’s what stumps me.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they’ll need on a computer is a browser.

It’s only under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership that the country can foresee a bright future.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.