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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

Best, Future, Create

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
Lao Tzu

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

Best, Future, Invent

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 Drucker

Future, Night, Down

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
Neil Armstrong

Science, Far, Year

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
Scott Adams

Power, Future, Stupidity

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
Michael Phelps

Nothing, Impossible, Won

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir Lenin

Time, Revolution, Impossible

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer

Power, Future, Shape

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.
Christopher Hitchens

Hard, Down, Times

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born

Success, God, Made

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.
Carrie Underwood

Life, Rest, Throw

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
Edward de Bono

Future, Cannot, High

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Hard, Everything

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Age, Amazing, Long

I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?
Benjamin Carson

Life, God, Mind

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership, Dangerous, Situation

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
King Abdullah II

Country, Difficult, Start

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.
Brett Favre

Time, Future, Long

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
David Eddings

Science, True, Opinion

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.
Robert Duvall

Hope, Enjoy, Whatever

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
Nate Silver

Future, Past, Try

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.
Bryan Cranston

Craziness, Defense

You can only predict things after they have happened.
Eugene Ionesco

After, Happened

I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
King Abdullah II

Impossible, While, Almost

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

Dreams, Future, Mother

I never predict anything, and I never will.
Paul Gascoigne

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
Henri Poincare

Nature, Same, Moment

I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.
Gilbert Gottfried

Win, Two, Super

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
Freeman Dyson

Future, Thinking, Purpose

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