Top 1200 Live Futures Quotes & Sayings

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

We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about children having to score at the top level on some test. The irony is, kids could score at the top and still not succeed at finding great employment or becoming a great person.

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

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

I don't understand people who just live to exist, live to be OK. Live to be regular, live to be average. It doesn't make any sense to me. I live to be the best. I don't live to be good. You only get one life, and I live to be great. I live to be special.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. It’s the biggest social injustice imaginable. What we are allowing to happen in this day and age, we are still allowing the color of a child’s skin and the Zip code they live in to dictate their educational outcome, and therefore their life outcome. We are robbing them every single day of their futures. And everybody in this country should be infuriated by that.

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

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

It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. 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.

You can't just hope things away. All of us have to care, to really focus on our cities, because that's where most people live, and they're crumbling. And along with them are the futures of a lot of people. So it's a wake-up call, but no one film can do all that; we're just trying to be a part of the conversation.

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

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

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

No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

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.

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

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

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

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

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

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

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

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

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

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

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

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

They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.

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

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.

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

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.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

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

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

Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

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

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

The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

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

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

By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

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

I'm a futures man.

I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this view, Schrödinger's set-up will give rise to in two future branches of reality, one with a live cat, and one with a dead cat - and the talk of '50% chances' just indicates that the two branches are both equally real futures of the cat that originally entered the box.