The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
There have been ups and downs over the years, but that’s in the past, and now I’m just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Back when I watched ‘Future Boy Conan,’ I thought I might like to try my hand at animation, but now, not at all.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.
The world wants to know – is the future a democratic one or an autocratic one? And I want to make sure that the United States leads on that, clearly that it’s democratic.
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‘then’ and ‘maybe,’ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
History is the best guide to the future.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect so why bother.
I like Future, Young Thug, Mike WiLL, DJ Spinz, Metro Boomin, Drake, Kendrick.
The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.
Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
Worrying about the past or the future isn’t productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
Life science is an investment for the future.
Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can’t sustain them.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people’s hopes.
Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.
At the end of the day, if you’re not spanking your child and instilling in them the ideas of selflessness, servitude, and wisdom, you’re probably looking at a future P. Diddy in the making (maybe even a Keith Olbermann – take your pick).
I love this stuff – bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology – and what the future holds.
Because of the vulgar advent, I decided to give way and, by dark and cryptic sentences, tell of the causes of the future mutation of mankind; especially the most urgent ones, and the ones I perceived, and in a manner that would not upset their fragile sentiments.
The scary thing about the future… there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they’ll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can’t reason with a drone.
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’
The future is always beginning now.
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
Being in London has really taught me how important history is. Just having information of the past. It helps you predict the future, which is all we really have as, you know, humans.
Buckhannon, population 5,639, is a deeply conservative town and long has been. While coal is its past, oil and gas are its likely future. It’s a town where guns are sold at yard sales, where Pentecostal churches are nearly as common as restaurants, and where distrust of Hillary Clinton is visceral and deep-seated.
Create your future from your future not your past.
‘The Dublin Magazine’ has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is the contribution Africa will make to the world of the future – an injection of sanity into the environment of the universe itself.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
I had bad anxiety and bad depression. That’s like the worst thing you could have. You think too much about the past, you get depression. You think too much about the future, you get anxiety.
I got a bright future ahead of me.
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you’re at, but the future of who’s going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.
There’s no need to look too far into the future or the past. Enjoy the moment.
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength… it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
