A Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
French - Diplomat
February 2, 1754 - May 17, 1838

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Isaac Asimov

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Fletcher Knebel

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Walter Lippmann

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

Ambrose Bierce

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Ellen Key

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

William Rounseville Alger

Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence.

Joyce Beatty

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

John Grierson

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

Niklas Luhmann

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.

John Dewey

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

Plutarch

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Henri Poincare

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

Henry Thomas Buckle

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Robert Henri

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

Henry Steele Commager

If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.

Jean-Luc Godard

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