#foresee

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

— Maria Callas

#ends #foresee #good #good teachers #great

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. ↗

— Brian Greene

#answers #asking #boldness #deep #flexibility

What I didn't foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will probably be the end of the consoles. ↗

— John Romero

#consoles #end #foresee #i #now

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' ↗

— Vince Cable

#attempting #chance #claim #company #developments

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#environment #himself #his #introvert #never

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#admit #amidst #away #cannot #censorship

Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. ↗

— H.A.L. Fisher

#destiny #europe #fate #harmony #history

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. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#contagion #countries #currency #european #eurozone

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#feels #foreseeable #foreseeable future #future #however

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. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#blessed #eternity #events #foresee #future