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But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures.
— Anonymous
Visions are possibilities. Actions are the only thing able to determine our futures.
— Jacquelyn Frank
A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'
— Myron Scholes
Not in imagined futures, Or in remembered pasts, But only here and only now Will you find a peace that lasts.
— Devdas Menon
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.
— Dan Simmons
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
— Audre Lorde
I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.
— Richard K. Morgan
Any given moment contains unlimited futures that can become real. The reality that occurs is the one you pay attention to.
— Penney Peirce
Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
— Jamais Cascio
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
— Kevin Kelly
The truth that our futures are so often determined not by some grand design or deliberate strategy but by an ordinary run-of-the-mill head cold.
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.
— Maggie Stiefvater
The choices of one shape the futures of all.
— Timothy Zahn
The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.
— Ana Claudia Antunes
Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.
— Jamais Cascio
That's the thing about silences and futures; someone always comes along to fill them in. If you let them.
— Carrie Ryan
What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.
— Patricia Highsmith
Some people exude their futures, good or bad.
— John Steinbeck
There are so many futures still to dawn!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Our histories plan our futures.
— Robyn Carr
Maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.
— John Green
I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.
— Kanye West
There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.
— Warren Ellis
Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
— Richard Bach
We do not realize the full extent of the difference between near and far futures. Yet
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
— Philippe Kahn
The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I am the ghost of Christmas futures, George!
— Fredrik Backman
We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
— Andy Stanley
We control with our own minds most everything in our lives, including our health, our careers, our relationships, and our futures
— Shad Helmstetter
Men screamed as she opened them and let their futures spill out.
— Jonathan Maberry
Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures.
— Lionel Suggs
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.
— Jorge Luis Borges
All of our futures," she said, "exist in the Internet.
— Lauren Groff
What a community erects on its historical landscape not only sums up its view of the past but also influences its possible futures.
— James W. Loewen
Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
— Alan McCluskey
But she is not looking down, but looking up maybe, some kind of fortune teller who can read futures in passing dark clouds.
— Yannick Murphy
Please make this nation remember how futures are built
— Mario Cuomo
He was indulgent toward the open spaces of other men's futures, but he was impatient with the shuttered quarters of their pasts.
— Eleanor Catton
The Futures Bright, Wear Your Sunglasses
— Ian Somerhalder
They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
— Ruth Handler
We have to edge them out of the rankings. That will damage their futures. Permanently.
— Veronica Roth
There's no set futures, only the one we make. - Marina / Seven
— Pittacus Lore
Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.
— Diana Whitney
It is not the beauty of nature, but it is our dream-filled actions that create our futures.
— Debasish Mridha
Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.
— Ewan McGregor
We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I'd paralyzed their lives, their futures. I was like ice, like frost freezing their hopes and dreams. I was the living embodiment of frostbite.
— Adrienne Woods
Life is a sum of all your choices, wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.
— Howard Schultz
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
— Orson Scott Card
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
— Garth Nix
we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.
— Irvine Welsh
We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.
— Barack Obama
When she was taken from me it was like the death of a world, an infinite number of futures coming to an end.
— John Connolly
Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined
— Jimmy Carter
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
— J. D. Bernal
we sometimes imagine dark futures just to scare our own pants off.
— Daniel M. Gilbert
If we were all perfect in our pasts, then we'd have nothing to hope for in our futures
— Jenny Oliver
I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit.
— Dr. Willie Parker
We build our futures together, in the words we exchange today.
— Sherwood Fleming
We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.
— Dexter Palmer
What a blessing it is we cannot see our futures.
— Sarah Bower
As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.
— Dexter Palmer
[A lesser light asked Ummon Are there multiple futures Ummon answered Does a dog have fleas]
— Dan Simmons
And those with dark pasts didn't always yearn for dark futures.
— Morgan Rhodes
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
— William Gibson
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
— Honore De Balzac
Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
— Gary Weiss
We have the ability to construct our own futures, albeit not in circumstances of our own choosing
— Steven Pinker
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.
— Douglas Adams
You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.
— George Lucas
Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.
— Orrin Woodward
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
— F. Matthias Alexander
Mathematics tells us that knowledge of all infinite futures is not possible - is this why bad things happen? Has science killed God? — R.J. Hogarth
Elections are futures markets in stolen property.
— H.L. Mencken
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
— Terry Eagleton
