Quotes about Futures

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort. Votes: 4

The Futures Bright, Wear Your Sunglasses Votes: 3

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. Votes: 3

Our Futures are Formed by the Thoughts we Hold Most Often. Votes: 3

President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels. Votes: 3

All imaginable futures are not equally possible. Votes: 2

I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears. Votes: 2

Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids' futures. Votes: 2

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. Votes: 2

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. Votes: 2

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. Votes: 2

I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart. Votes: 2

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions. Votes: 2

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends. Votes: 2

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. Votes: 2

Obama seems to inspire a bizarre personal loyalty among his advocates, particularly among young people who should by all rights be concerned with their fading futures and collapsing prospects. Votes: 2

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities. Votes: 2

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying. Votes: 2

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal. Votes: 2

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television. Votes: 2

I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films. Votes: 2

And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures. Votes: 2

At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial obstacles in life. They are not in search of a handout; what they want most of all is the ability to take ownership of their own futures. Votes: 2

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. Votes: 2

My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me. Votes: 2

The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight. Votes: 2

When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill. Votes: 2

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them. Votes: 2

In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures. Votes: 2

What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures. Votes: 2

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. Votes: 0

Elections are futures markets in stolen property. Votes: 0

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined Votes: 0

Every passing year brings us more past futures. Votes: 0

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made Votes: 0

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. Votes: 0

The choices of one shape the futures of all. Votes: 0

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures. Votes: 0

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. Votes: 0

Together we can save American lives, American jobs, and American futures. Votes: 0

There's no set futures, only the one we make." - Marina / Seven Votes: 0

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own. Votes: 0

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. Votes: 0

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. Votes: 0

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good. Votes: 0

Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures". Votes: 0

Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds. Votes: 0

Your "look-alike" may be the result of one of the various possible futures happening simultaneously! Votes: 0

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures. Votes: 0

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. Votes: 0

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know. Votes: 0

Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible. Votes: 0

Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures. Votes: 0

Time is forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures and in one of them I am your enemy. Votes: 0

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures. Votes: 0

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures. Votes: 0

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures. Votes: 0

Mastermind and collaborate with other smart entrepreneurs if they have futures that are even bigger than their present. Votes: 0

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. Votes: 0

She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own. Votes: 0

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present. Votes: 0

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures. Votes: 0

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. Votes: 0

You're so haunted by other people's futures that you forget, the only future you cannot see is your own. Votes: 0

Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures. Votes: 0

There are many futures, not just one. Life is not like walking down the road and meeting the predetermined events. Votes: 0

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.' Votes: 0

I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures. Votes: 0

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures. Votes: 0

Any given moment contains unlimited futures that can become real. The reality that occurs is the one you pay attention to. Votes: 0

Surrounding yourself with people who are actively and enthusiastically working toward their best futures will keep you moving toward your own goals. Votes: 0

Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures. Votes: 0

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. Votes: 0

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power. Votes: 0

I'm going to fight as hard as I can to make sure people have the futures that they deserve here in America. Votes: 0

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. Votes: 0

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. Votes: 0

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. Votes: 0

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in. Votes: 0

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. Votes: 0

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. Votes: 0

Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs. Votes: 0

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. Votes: 0

A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. . . . It's a fun game, Votes: 0

We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders. Votes: 0

If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures. Votes: 0

There is more uncertainty than usual about job futures because computers are replacing more and more human intelligence, and globalization is proceeding at an accelerating pace. Votes: 0

There are all kinds of futures. There is a hoped-for future, there is a feared future, there is a predictable future, and there is an unimagined future. Votes: 0

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling. Votes: 0

We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president. Votes: 0

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost Votes: 0

We live in changing times, and many people experience the challenges that come with it. In the face of uncertain futures, no one will know what to expect. Votes: 0

When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it. Votes: 0

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so. Votes: 0

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple. Votes: 0

Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market. Votes: 0

Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for special entities such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market. Votes: 0

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero. Votes: 0

Weston Bakeries is proud to support local children's charities across Canada. We believe the more we invest in our kids' futures today, the better our communities will be tomorrow. Votes: 0

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men. Votes: 0

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America. Votes: 0

Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season. Votes: 0

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future. Votes: 0

Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely. Votes: 0

Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures. Votes: 0

I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves. Votes: 0

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes. Votes: 0

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured. Votes: 0

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. Votes: 0

To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake. Votes: 0

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures. Votes: 0

If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures. Votes: 0

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones. Votes: 0

Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present. Votes: 0

The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures. Votes: 0

The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand. Votes: 0

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others. Votes: 0

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures. Votes: 0

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way. Votes: 0

Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures. Votes: 0