Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
quote by Chester W. Nimitz
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Its not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.
quote by Real Live Preacher
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Divination
It's demanding even in hindsight.
It's hard to see a connecting light…?
When it's apparent all around is night.
So who can foretell a hidden knowledge?
When enlightenment; comes only to those
On a skiff afloat on, thoughts, past tense.
After; a long interlude of inner voyage
Whom amongst us; can still be inspired
By that enigma of understanding, that
Day follows night that dawn follows sunset.
Divination…
It's difficult even by this hindsight.
poem by Mark Heathcote
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My Uncle
He was about to leave,
but found time to advise:
'Diplomacy will do you good, ' he said
'Don't be like people who hit below the belt.
Me, I only go as far as the belt itself.'
Patting his six-shooter
tucked in it.
He saddled to his horse....
err, his bike, somewhat
to go to city haunts.
He loves the scene
the sins.
Long detained in farmer's life
he wanted out, sometimes.
Or in.
Places like Follies 69.
Not a good place
where to get farm help though.
The last one
most recent
she run off with a stag.
That's right- a male deer
which she sold
auction style.
'My boy, ' said uncle.
'Choose a lass with hindsight
and foresight.
Her one eye looking at the past,
while the other sees the future.'
But not many cross-eyed ladies
in our county, I suppose.
And none
quite beautiful enough.
poem by Reyvrex Questor Reyes
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Above Yesterday
Life’s Yesteryear of Yesterday’s
Guides your path for today’s parade,
It is always today.... tomorrow never comes,
When you close the door on yesterday
A new day is born; grasp it with all your energy
Don’t hold back it stifles your potential.
Don’t let it blindfold your foresight,
For tomorrow masquerade’s as today,
Now is the hour, head high shoulders back
Look for your life's love and love your family,
Walk the straight line of goodness,
It is your investment in God,
In hindsight’s reflection it is your payment
For Gods investment in presenting you
....................With your life.......................
poem by Ken e Hall
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Don't be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail.
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.
quote by La Rochefoucauld
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Prior to a Hindsight
Wouldn't it be wonderful,
If hindsight discovered...
Could produce hints of its coming.
And stunned everyone,
With an enlightened comprehension.
Finding a correctness to silence apprehensions.
And true forgiveness would be granted,
With a happiness shared.
Prior to a hindsight...
Coming to glare with a caring quickly there.
To spare us from the giving of those 'puppy eyes'!
No one can deny...
Although angered by it arriving as it comes,
Just before the tongue prepares to unleash a lashing.
'You could have saved us from conflict,
By admitting that before this happened.'
~I wasn't thinking then like I am now! ~
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
quote by Leo Szilard
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In order to succeed it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to do is be one day ahead of them.
quote by Leo Szilard
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My predictions are notably inaccurate.
quote by Robert Caro
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Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
quote by Oscar Wilde
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Meeting the Eye
You'll probably find
that it suits your book
to be a bit cleverer
than you look.
Observe that the easiest
method by far
is to look a bit stupider
than you are.
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
quote by Thomas Perry
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Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
quote by Giorgio Moroder
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I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
quote by Andy Hertzfeld
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Clever
No matter how clever
we think we are, there
is always someone
who is cleverer than us.
They may not be brainier
and their intelligence level
may even be low,
but on one thing,
they can outstrip us
with their gift
that makes up for
other failings they may have,
so never think yourself better
than everyone else
because the simple answer is
that you are not.
23 May 2008
poem by David Harris
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In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
quote by William Ames
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
quote by Irving Babbitt
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Many Boast
Many forts dig and dig better,
Much of the time we believe cleverer.
To click on tomorrow is a joy,
Understand this more for your ploy.
The car of danger is driven from a mountain,
Never do religions believe so like acceleration.
Absolute sums better than most
Drive us and expel us to boast.
poem by Naveed Akram
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