Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.
You’ve got to give your past attention, but you’ve got to forgive yourself, acknowledge what you did wrong, and be a man, taking responsibility. You can’t not fly anymore because of the things you’ve been through. You’ve got to believe in a brighter future, that better version of yourself.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn’t ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
I like what the future holds. I don’t like thinking about the past.
My message always is: No matter where you are from, no matter what past you have, it is all about your future and your goals.
The future will take care of itself. My plans have fallen flat. Nothing that I planned has worked for me so far. So I don’t plan anymore. I keep short-term plans.
I know I’m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won’t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
I have frequently pointed out that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.
It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges – but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times – will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.
Technology is changing so fast that investment in hardware is getting riskier everyday. On the other hand, whether it is traditional computers or smart gadgets which are part of the convergence technologies of the future, some planning of hardware needs is still important.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Future is mobile computing – smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
My father gave me some advice when I was very young – whatever someone tells you in the future, don’t forget Pele is the best.
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
With the Internet and blockchain, everything is changed. It’s the future of content.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
I can’t predict the future and I don’t have respect for people who try to.
These interviews, sometimes they jog your memories, like what you were doing when you were 10 years old. They’re always searching for your past; they can keep you living there. I want to go on to the future.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Of course there will be difficult times, and there will be more in the future, but I know what I have to do in the car.
The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained – through prayer, study, and careful analysis – to manifest the divine event of God’s saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.
Even gang members imagine a future that doesn’t include gangs.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
I haven’t done much voice-over work, but I enjoy it. I’m hoping to do more in the future.
The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
You never say never. There’s always a chance to do things in the future.
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility – along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure – would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today’s economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
In my first interview in the UFC, I asked them to throw me among the lions. I wanted to fight the best, and that’s what the UFC did. Ex-champions, future champions – that’s what I wanted.
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.
Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
The future is inherently uncertain.
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they shape our shared future.
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
I see my future with my family, with my grandsons and daughters, and I want to look after some welfare institutions I had set up at different places in the country with the help of expatriate Pakistanis.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
