Top 100 Predict Future Quotes
#1. one cannot "predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely!
Bill Bryson
#2. We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#3. It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.
John Key
#4. We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#5. When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
Nate Silver
#6. The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
Gary Chapman
#7. I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
Vince Cable
#9. Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#10. follows: to understand the future to the point of being able to predict it, you need to incorporate elements from this future itself. If
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#11. People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.
Ray Bradbury
#12. But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures.
Anonymous
#13. Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
Harry Browne
#14. It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. That's what bites about the future
there's no way to predict it. You just have to show up and see what happens.
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
#16. We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.
Jacque Fresco
#17. Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
William Arthur Ward
#18. There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.
Gus Van Sant
#20. Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#21. You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it
Saji Ijiyemi
#22. We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.
Anthony Liccione
#23. You can only predict things after they have happened.
Eugene Ionesco
#24. We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the future to act therein as they wish.
Tayeb Salih
#25. The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present
Paul Saffo
#26. You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#27. Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
Nicole Kidman
#28. If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.
Richard P. Feynman
#29. While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.
Werner Erhard
#30. Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.
Peter Drucker
#31. He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.
Daniel Wallace
#32. You couldn't predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.
Sara Sheridan
#33. Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.
Walter A. Shewhart
#34. To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.
Eric Hoffer
#35. I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
Sam Raimi
#36. The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
Daniel Kahneman
#37. I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.
Ray Bradbury
#38. There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.
Burt Rutan
#39. I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
Bob Edwards
#40. If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
Karl Schroeder
#41. One can't predict the future, that maybe our training and their fighting capabilities are improving and we are going to make some progress in destroying ISIS.
Bernie Sanders
#42. I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.
Leonard Mlodinow
#43. Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Peter F. Drucker
#44. What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.
Steve Case
#45. Steve Jobs: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Walter Isaacson
#46. Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized to regard them as part of the present order of Nature.
Charles Lyell
#47. Oh, you think it's funny being mean to Sienna on facebook?
I predict a bandaged thumb in the near future
yours.
Sienna McQuillen
#48. You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.
Elizabeth May
#49. Location is also predictive. Researchers at Microsoft found that location data can be used to predict fairly accurately where people will be located in the future.
Julia Angwin
#50. Unless we can predict the future, we shouldn't be worrying about things that haven't happened yet. We can place these thoughts in God's hands then let them go.
Ron Baratono
#51. We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
Alan Kay
#52. What I am saying is that you have to continue being you. You can't change the past or predict the future. And you can't let him continue to control you.
Kendall Evone Hayes
#53. When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.
Marc Faber
#54. To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions
Douglass North
#55. I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.
Herbert Hoover
#56. I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
Jackie Mason
#57. Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.
Hu Shih
#58. Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.
Dermot Mulroney
#59. I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
Errol Morris
#60. If you want to predict the future...write it yourself.
I heard these words by Paul Saffro a number of years ago and they really stuck with me
Declan Clarke
#61. You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.
Geoffrey Hinton
#62. Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested
Peter Lynch
#63. I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.
Guus Hiddink
#64. We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.
Daniel Gilbert
#65. What you reject today, you could accept tomorrow. And what you accept today, you could reject tomorrow. Never say never unless you can predict the future.
Suzy Kassem
#67. I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic.
Jeane Dixon
#68. As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.
Jay Samit
#69. The realization that you can't predict the future
and mold it
could only come as a shock to an academic.
David Harsanyi
#70. It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
Niels Bohr
#72. One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
Lars Ulrich
#73. You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more.
Julieanne O'Connor
#74. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
Laurence J. Peter
#75. People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.
Seth Klarman
#76. You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future
a good future, a useful future
and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
Isaac Asimov
#77. In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
#78. Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.
A.W. Tozer
#79. We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.
Laurent Jalabert
#80. We may be able to predict when it shall rain but the exact second when the first rain drop shall hit the ground is always uncertain all.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#81. History is sensitive dependent on initial conditions. You cannot predict the future.
Maureen F. McHugh
#82. Prohibit omens altogether. You can best predict your future by controlling it yourself, not by trusting luck or fate to control it.
Sun Tzu
#83. Okay we both know... what happens... with sex... different places... different time... different date... different rooms... the biatch is still bitchy.... very bitchy as pitchy.... The agony - DOOOOOO YOU FEEL IT?
- wE JUST PREDICTED THE FUTURE!
Deyth Banger
#84. I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.
Harry Allen Overstreet
#85. The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.
Charlie Munger
#86. Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
#87. Listen," he said gently and stepped closer. "No one can predict the future, but right now you're the most important thing to me. I would regret it for the rest of my life if we didn't give this a chance.
Angie Stanton
#88. It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.
Rudy Rucker
#89. I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
Damien Rice
#90. And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.
Warren Zevon
#91. I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.
Shan Sa
#92. If you want to predict the future of our land, go to school and look around.
Richard Mitchell
#93. Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it.
David D. Burns
#94. Science fiction doesn't try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present ... We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different
Samuel R. Delany
#95. Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny.
Jeffrey Fry
#96. Life is full of disappointments, but we have to take some risks. None of us can predict the future, for only God knows what's to come.
Wanda E. Brunstetter
#97. We are who we choose to be, so we cannot change our past nor predict our future, but we can live each day to the fullest by sharing love and laughter with friends and associates.
Irma Schettini Caiazzo
#98. Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
Ayn Rand
#99. Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.
Yasmine Galenorn
#100. There's never enough information ... That's the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.
Orson Scott Card
