#foresight

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity. ↗

— Xun Zi

#ease #foresight #knowledge #penetrating #sincerity

Full moon is falling through the sky. Cranes fly through clouds. Wolves howl. I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world. Sima Zian added, "I love the man who wrote that, I told you before, but there is so much burden in Chan Du. Duty, assuming all tasks, can betray arrogance. The idea we can know what must be done, and do it properly. We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#duty #foresight #future #powerlessness #imagination

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#foresight #africa

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

— Edward Koch

#foresight #primitive #strategist

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

#any #calculation #continual #dealing #exercise

Through adversity, not only are we given an 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. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#experience #foresight #inner-strength #inspirational-quotes #light

Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#foresight #human #human-senses #inspirational-quotes #intuition

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. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#knowledge #women #love

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#depressive #foresight #i #like #lot

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. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#foresight #inspirational #courage