{"quotes":[{"text":"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["control","despair","foresight","hope","surrender"],"id":12150,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.","author":"Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha","tags":["foresight","glory","goodreads","great-soul","highsight","ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha","imagination","insight","life","mentality","mindset","positive-thinking","quotation","quote","success","thoughts","wisdom-of-winners"],"id":20834,"author_id":"Ifeanyi+Enoch+Onuoha"},{"text":"No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.","author":"Innocent Mwatsikesimbe","tags":["foresight","future","life","preparedness","proactive","time"],"id":25317,"author_id":"Innocent+Mwatsikesimbe"},{"text":"When you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["complacency","doing-great-things","dream","foresight","inspirational","life","living-the-dream","mediocrity","preparation","preparation-to-face-the-day","task","vision"],"id":28636,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war).","author":"Max Hastings","tags":["foresight","historical","history","irony"],"id":29429,"author_id":"Max+Hastings"},{"text":"This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof construction: thatch), stows both the plan and the mosquito in his briefcase. On a German shelf, this mosquito, pressed flat between large quantities of paper, will outlast time and times, and one day it might even be petrified, who knows.","author":"Jenny Erpenbeck","tags":["foresight","german-history","loss","poignant","sad-but-true"],"id":36665,"author_id":"Jenny+Erpenbeck"},{"text":"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.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["foresight","knowledge","women"],"id":48220,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["acumen","ity","book-knowledge","bookish","brainy","charge","cleverness","comand","control","direction","dominance","foresight","genuis","huge","immature","influence","intelligence","knowledge","leader","leadership","leading","little-things","looks","management","mastery","power","precocious","rule","sight","size","small","sovereignty","steering","superintendence","supremacy","sway","tiny","wisdom","wise"],"id":60820,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"You speak rather poorly of God when praising Him, or when wanting to praise Him, only during that which you perceive to be your highest of moments. That is many a reason behind unbelief altogether: the failed attempt to control God, to lower His standards to one's own level of understanding in doubt of His foresight and omniscience, His goodness and power. He wants to know if you are faithful enough to praise Him even when, to you, all seems lost.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adversity","agnosticism","apologetics","atheism","belief","character","faith","foresight","god","goodness","grateful","hope","hopelessness","lack-of-faith","life","omniscience","pain","power","praise","suffering","thankful","theism","unbelief","worship"],"id":77403,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.","author":"Walter Isaacson","tags":["foresight","heritage","perspective"],"id":80565,"author_id":"Walter+Isaacson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}