Mohsin Hamid Quotes

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.

The trick now is to turn insight into foresight. The trick is to know this about your tomorrow, today... Remember, your future is not coming to you; it's coming through you...change your idea about the changes to come, even as you change your idea about the changes that have passed. Then you can change your experience of both.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

Anticipation forward points the view.

Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved.

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

We all use the future to escape the present.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

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