Quotes About Predicting Future

#1. I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.

Burton Malkiel

#2. The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

J.K. Rowling

#3. If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

Al Yankovic

#4. Predicting the future is a mug's game, but any game is improved when you can actually keep the score.

Douglas Adams

#5. The worst way to know if people would pay to use a product or if they would use it repeatedly is ask them directly. Humans are very bad at predicting their future behavior. In

Tomer Sharon

#6. Getting a full-body buzz with a guy I'd just met was as weird as seeing dead people. But much more enjoyable.

Myra McEntire

#7. Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.

Chris Fabry

#8. Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down and things may be different tomorrow but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.

Steve Jobs

#9. Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term ... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.

Bill Maris

#10. Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. There is nothing that fascinates us more, little that agitates the body more completely. Information warns us of danger, prepares us for action, helps us survive. And it enables us to perform that most magical of all tricks - predicting the future.

John Coates

#12. To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

Anton Chekhov

#13. Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Ray Bradbury

#14. I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

Fred Durst

#15. I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

Rem Koolhaas

#16. Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#17. Trying to predict the future is a mug's game. But increasingly it's a game we all have to play because the world is changing so fast and we need to have some sort of idea of what the future's actually going to be like because we are going to have to live there, probably next week.

Douglas Adams

#18. Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.

Frederick Lenz

#19. I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

Damon Albarn

#20. I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

Rick Perlstein

#21. 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

#22. By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

Dave Barry

#23. Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

W. Timothy Garvey

#24. 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. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.

Dennis Gabor

#25. My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Ralph Abraham

#26. I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#27. Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

Karl Schroeder

#28. You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts.

Daniel Kahneman

#29. Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls ... collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer ... commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

Scott Adams

#30. I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.

Noreena Hertz

#31. That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

Branford Marsalis

#32. Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed.

Auliq Ice

#33. I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Ray Bradbury

#34. 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

#35. It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.

Derek Thompson

#36. I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

James Taylor