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  • To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

    Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.217, Open Road Media
  • Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

    Liars   Lying   Tyrants  
    Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.226, Open Road Media
  • Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

    Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.
  • One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

    Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.192, Penguin
  • In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

    Life   Winning   Focus  
    Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”
  • I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil.

    Dream   Husband   Men  
    "The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Perilous Order of Camelot". Volume One,
  • It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [...] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is.

    Team   Athlete   Average  
  • People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.

    People   Pay   Way  
    Thomas Nixon Carver (1926). “The Present Economic Revolution in the United States”
  • Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

  • Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.

  • When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

    Nature   Stars   Children  
    Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press
  • Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

    Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.14, Del Rey
  • Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

    Pain   Failure   Mean  
  • The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

    Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.310, Open Road Media
  • A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

    "The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase". Book by Jacob Schuckers, 1874.
  • He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

    Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors
  • The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

  • For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

    Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres
  • Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

    Life   Integrity   Real  
  • To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

    Littles   Too Much   Fool  
  • You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

    "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 13, 2012.
  • The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.68, Courier Corporation
  • All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor. As bodies which possess some power produce their effects by merely existing: e.g. the sun gives light and heat by merely existing; so, and far more so, the providence of the Gods acts without effort to itself and for the good of the objects of its forethought. This solves the problems of the Epicureans , who argue that what is divine neither has trouble itself nor gives trouble to others.

    Taken   Believe   Light  
  • In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

    Perseverance   War   Self  
  • A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.

    May   Planning   Victim  
    Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.40, Open Road Media
  • As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

    Reflection   Men   Names  
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.2
  • The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

    Wise   Courage   Men  
    Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”
  • The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

    "The Quotable Bertrand Russell".
  • Being busy does not always mean real work.

    Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.
  • Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

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