Top 78 You Can't Predict The Future Quotes
#1. The realization that you can't predict the future
and mold it
could only come as a shock to an academic.
David Harsanyi
#2. You can't predict the future. It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in both directions - forward and backward - and what happens here and now changes them both.
Nicola Yoon
#3. You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it
Saji Ijiyemi
#4. We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.
Daniel Gilbert
#5. Oh, you think it's funny being mean to Sienna on facebook?
I predict a bandaged thumb in the near future
yours.
Sienna McQuillen
#6. I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.
Guus Hiddink
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
Errol Morris
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
Jackie Mason
#14. 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
#15. To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions
Douglass North
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
Alan Kay
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
Alan Kay
#23. Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond ... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.
John Browne, Baron Browne Of Madingley
#24. want to either. We take what is offered us on this earth and live life to the fullest. No one can predict their own future, though many have tried. What will be is what will be in the end. You cannot change the course of time." The king patted Nicholas
Robyn Neeley
#25. They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.
Jeremy Hunt
#26. Sometimes as a man, you fear what you can't see. Nobody can predict the future. You don't know what's going to happen. Tomorrow's not promised. The only thing you can do is live your life, hope for the best, continue to have faith, believe in yourself.
Michael Vick
#27. You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.
Earl Nightingale
#28. You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
Frederik Pohl
#29. Your future depends of the choices you make today. The future for this reason can be predicted by your day to day living.
Israelmore Ayivor
#30. Your path is your path, for better or worse. It is what it is. You don't know what's going to happen in life. You've got right now and that's it. Can't change the past, can't predict the future.
Sabrina Paige
#31. Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.
Orit Gadiesh
#32. 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
#33. Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
Ayn Rand
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more.
Julieanne O'Connor
#37. It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
Niels Bohr
#38. 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
#39. I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic.
Jeane Dixon
#41. Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
William Arthur Ward
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. You can only predict things after they have happened.
Eugene Ionesco
#46. We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.
Anthony Liccione
#47. one cannot "predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely!
Bill Bryson
#48. Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
Nicole Kidman
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. 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
#56. But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures.
Anonymous
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
Daniel Kahneman
#61. Steve Jobs: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Walter Isaacson
#62. What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.
Steve Case
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
Bob Edwards
#68. 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
#69. I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.
Ray Bradbury
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. You couldn't predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.
Sara Sheridan
#75. 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
#76. Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.
Peter Drucker
#77. 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
#78. 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
