We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can’t really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work – making an investment in the future of humanity.
The future is as bright as your faith.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it’s to suggest all the possible futures – so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.
I choose to fight for the future, to seize the high ground and retake the Shining City on a Hill.
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding it like clay day after day – and soon we have made out of that event a myth. We then keep the myth in memory as a guide to future similar situations.
There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today’s politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
I’m very optimistic about the future. I’m just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.
Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it’s more casual but more interesting.
If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
A good leader, in my view, should have a clear vision of the future they want and the society they need to build. They must also have a connection with the people who work for them and be able to mobilise their best energies to create teams where people can be most creative and happy.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
There’s the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn’t been a theoretical exercise. It’s been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we’ve learned an awful lot from.
We don’t see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.
The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
The future is as bright as the promises of God.
I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it’s all illusion. I don’t know. I’ve always been ready for it.
Innovation is the calling card of the future.
Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement – one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
The sky is honestly the limit, so I’m excited to see what the future holds.
Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.
India’s history and destiny, India’s legacy and future, are a function of coexistence and conciliation, of reform and reconciliation.
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination.
Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.
Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it’s what she fights for that is important. It’s her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.
What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.
We think of our future as anticipated memories.
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
The move to a zero-carbon future is unstoppable.
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
