Top 273 Futures Quotes & Sayings

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

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

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

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

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

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.

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

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.

We will work constructively with China as we always have. Our futures are very much intertwined in the region.

I was not performing or recording in the last trimester of my pregnancy but I was working from home, planning my futures projects.

I'm a futures man.

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

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

Too many of our immigrant communities have been forced to live in fear, uncertain about their futures.

The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

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

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

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

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

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

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.

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man or that women or those children or those people who voted for me or who painted my picture. Poet. Acrobat. Engineer. Friend. Guardian. Avenging whirlwind. A million futures--not all pretty, not all long, but all of them mine. I do have a choice" - p. 271

History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present’s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present.

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

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

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

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.

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

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

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

People care about their financial futures, and politics is very much a part of that.

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

ncrementalism is out, and doing deals with people just for power, when our children's futures at stake is not something I will ever do.

It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.

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

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.

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

If we really care about impacting countries around the world and their economic futures, then what we need to do is empower women.

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.

When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.

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.

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.

People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.

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

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.

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

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

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

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

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

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

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

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