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  • Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

    Long   Planning   Fantasy  
    David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried (2010). “ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever”, p.19, Random House
  • We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

    Children   Believe   Long  
    Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons
  • The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

  • He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

    Events   Dexterity   May  
    Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.482, Harvard University Press
  • We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

    Long   Looks   Investing  
    Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons
  • I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

  • To me there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

    Funny   Real   Humor  
    "Woody Allen on Faith, Fortune Tellers and New York". Interview with Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. September 14, 2010.
  • Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

    Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.376, Random House
  • Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

    Disease   Able   Treats  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.418, e-artnow
  • My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

    "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2008.
  • I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

    Play   Ideas   Knowing  
  • What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

    Years   Age   Nerves  
  • So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—” “Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.” “I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.

    Gun   Men   Two  
    Brandon Sanderson (2018). “Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series: (Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning)”, p.307, Tor Books
  • Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

    People   Want   Fortune  
  • Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

    Destiny   Men   Needs  
  • Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get the same thing... Unique as every letter is, the point each writer reaches is the same: I want love and I'm afraid I'll never get it. It's hard to answer those letters because I'm an advice columnist, not a fortune-teller. I have words instead of a crystal ball. I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it's never too much to ask for it.

  • Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects 'the gathered thorns' --thus the Thorned Path.

    Art   Blood   Rose  
  • Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

    Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”
  • Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

    Ordinary   Want   Witch  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)”, p.2, Random House
  • Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

  • Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

    Men   Legends   Amish  
  • Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

    Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin
  • I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

  • Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.110
  • He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

    Fate   Men   Hands  
    Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.482, Harvard University Press
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