The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Building sustainable cities – and a sustainable future – will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders – including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
I don’t think about my past or future.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.
There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as the old saw puts it, is that the future lies ahead.
I believe that agriculture land – productive agricultural land with water on site – will be valuable in the future.
I’m a fortune teller, but I don’t like to know my future.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
As I’ve always said: The future lies ahead.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.
If the ‘Post’ can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper’s future success.
A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
I’m a huge ‘Back to the Future’ fan.
Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
When you’re poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Futurists don’t consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
I’m a socialist. I know Marx and communism did not work before, but I think in the future you have the possibility of having total communism and equal access to everything for everybody.
I’m happy, I’m in a good place, I’m looking forward to my future.
It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.
When I talk about that Apple ecosystem, the ability to get one application to run across those five platforms is very difficult. In the future of Microsoft, using HTML5, IE9 and 10, the scalable OS, the ability to do that gets much, much easier.
My generation, we’re so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We’re such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that’s been held back by an older generation that doesn’t understand it, doesn’t want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.
Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.
Whatever shape my future service takes, I look forward to doing my part to help get our country back on track.
My philosophy is really based on humility. I don’t think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we’re ready for it.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
A good education is a foundation for a better future.
The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don’t really have the patience for it, and they don’t stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.
Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We’ll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We’ll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We’ll be able to modify life in the future.
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
And all your future lies beneath your hat.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands, and I am very happy about that!
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
In the future, I’d like to continue being honest with myself and admit when I’d be better off asking someone else to illustrate my writing.
