Knowing The Future Quotes

• The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Wise, Future

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

  John C. Maxwell

  Knowing, Essentials, Today

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• Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

  Laozi

  Flower, Knowing, Taoism

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• Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Knowing, Broken

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Dec 23, 2013

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• Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.

  Zig Ziglar

  Moving, Past, Knowing

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• Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Opportunity, Greatness, Knowing

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.213, Macmillan

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• Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.

  Tom Szaky

  Business, Mistake, Knowing

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• Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Knowing

  Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, Volume 1: Fundamentals of Individual Psychology and Psychotherapy: the Neurotic Character”, p.89, Alfred Adler Institute

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