Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn’t even exist. It’s kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.
On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community – these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
The future will be better tomorrow.
I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future.
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
I just want to be an inspiration. I’m a rock star, I’m Future Hendrix.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
I love entrepreneurship because that’s what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.
Don’t look too far into the future, just look at tomorrow. One day at a time. Can you win tomorrow? Can you make progress? The answer is yes, you have a choice and tomorrow you’re going to win.
We – the current generation – have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
My pops put me on to Jay-Z and Kanye, and my discoveries would be like Future and Kendrick Lamar. I turned my pops on to Kendrick, Young Thug. I feel my mom made me play the Isley Brothers and real, real old music.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
I really believe in the idea of the future.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
You don’t have to be a poet, you don’t have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
Isn’t it a shame that future generations can’t be here to see all the wonderful things we’re doing with their money?
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
When I was growing up, my mum was doing illegal smuggling with China. Sometimes she would see a fortune teller for advice. One time I went with her: ‘In your future, you’ll be living in foreign country and eating the foreign country rice,’ she said.
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
You will see – in the future, I will live by my watercolors.
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
For sure, life takes many twists and turns, and one never knows what the future might hold.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
