Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
I believe that my future is bright.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.
It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
I’m really excited to see what the future hold for me in terms of work. It’s going to be hard, but it’s going to be good hard work, and I’m really excited for the challenge that awaits me.
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.
It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
I just don’t want to live like I used to. And at some point, I’m going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I’ve got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We’ve made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
Every thought we think is creating our future.
I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, ‘No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,’ and then you do it.
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they’re 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
We’re at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
The future will either be green or not at all.
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
The way you deal with automation is by upgrading people’s skills so they can get the jobs of the future.
In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
I can’t change the past, but one person can change the future – anything can happen.
I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
I don’t have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It’s time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let’s be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
The future is always a dystopia in movies.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.
The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.
Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.
Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
