The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’
The future is always beginning now.
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
Being in London has really taught me how important history is. Just having information of the past. It helps you predict the future, which is all we really have as, you know, humans.
Buckhannon, population 5,639, is a deeply conservative town and long has been. While coal is its past, oil and gas are its likely future. It’s a town where guns are sold at yard sales, where Pentecostal churches are nearly as common as restaurants, and where distrust of Hillary Clinton is visceral and deep-seated.
Create your future from your future not your past.
‘The Dublin Magazine’ has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is the contribution Africa will make to the world of the future – an injection of sanity into the environment of the universe itself.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
I had bad anxiety and bad depression. That’s like the worst thing you could have. You think too much about the past, you get depression. You think too much about the future, you get anxiety.
I got a bright future ahead of me.
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you’re at, but the future of who’s going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.
There’s no need to look too far into the future or the past. Enjoy the moment.
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength… it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.
Trying to predict the future is a loser’s game.
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.
