Futures Quotes - page 4

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller. (Nick Clegg)
The futures of both peace and Civilization depend upon understanding and cooperation among the political, spiritual, and intellectual leaders of the world's major civilizations. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. View quote
Neil Gaiman
All imaginable futures are not equally possible. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.' View quote
Myron Scholes
Our country needs visionary and far-sighted leaders. People who appreciate and understand that our lives are inexplicably linked and our futures tied together. The vision must be one that is inclusive and open to everyone. It is a matter of enlightening self-interest. View quote
Joni Madraiwiwi
The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. View quote
John Berger
I think that with all the emphasis on achievement, careers and competitiveness, science education has become - with notable bright spots to be sure - a joyless, alienating and frustrating experience for millions and millions of kids. There are those science-fair-winner types and then there's the rest of the class, not grooving on the material and hence, they find out, doomed to mediocre futures. Seems like ambivalence and hostility aren't such surprising responses to such a message. ... I think things might go better if the narrative of our scientific understandings of nature - what some are calling "Big History" - were told early and often, capturing the interest and imagination of students from a young age. They might then be eager to learn the problem-solving, evidence-based process of scientific inquiry that has led to these understandings. View quote
Ursula Goodenough
During this campaign, we've heard about the two profoundly different futures that could await women. And how one of those futures looks like an offensive, obsolete relic of our past. View quote
Sandra Fluke
Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back – or turns his back. (Sandra Fluke)
The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt. View quote
Jim Rogers
When we leave people out or write them off, we not only shortchange them and their dreams, we shortchange our country and our own futures. View quote
Hillary Clinton
Let's make clear that we will not tolerate rape as a weapon of war -- it's a crime.And those who commit it must be punished. Let's lift up the next generation of women leaders who can help fight injustice and forge peace and start new businesses and create jobs -- and some might hire some men, too. We'll all be better off when women have equal futures. View quote
Barack Obama
Budgeting is a math exercise, number crunching. Planning is a logical, linear process. Strategizing requires a great deal of information about customers and competitors, along with conceptual skills. Visioning uses a very different part of the brain than budgeting. As the name implies, it involves trying to see possible futures. It inevitably has both a creative and emotional component (e. g., "How do we feel about the options?”). When you use "orthodox planning” to create a vision, frustration and failure are inevitable. View quote
John Kotter
There is also a magic in reading. Books have taken me to places I never thought I would visit, introduced me to people I never thought I would meet, and transported me to times past and futures imagined I never though I would experience. View quote
Joe Lieberman
Women who want to work deserve to work. And whenever they are denied that opportunity, it's not fair to them – and we all lose out. In a competitive 21st century global economy, we cannot afford to leave talent on the sidelines. When we leave people out or write them off, we not only shortchange them and their dreams, we shortchange our country and our own futures. View quote
Hillary Clinton