Imagine The Future Quotes

#1. In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.

Ray Bradbury

#2. I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.

Deepak Chopra

#3. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

Michel Odent

#4. What you saw is what I showed you. What you are seeing is what I'm showing you. What you are going to see, you can't even imagine the future me.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#5. I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

Pattie Boyd

#6. I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Nolan Bushnell

#7. A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

Alan Lightman

#8. Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.

Sylvia Earle

#9. If you can imagine the future being brighter, it lifts your energy and gooses the chemistry in your body that produces a sensation of happiness. If you can't even imagine an improved future, you won't be happy no matter how well your life is going right now.

Scott Adams

#10. Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

Gary Hamel

#11. Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.

Brian Halligan

#12. Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

Daniel Schacter

#13. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#14. I imagine the future and I smile grimly. There's only one way to make that happen. It's time to fight

Pittacus Lore

#15. I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

Ani DiFranco

#16. Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Richard Rogers

#17. Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

Jay-Z

#18. When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."

Jenna Marbles

#19. Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on.

Deepak Chopra

#20. After spending time in the East and meeting with ordinary Afghans there, it's hard to imagine how a future Afghan government will retain control of provinces such as Khost or Paktia once U.S. forces are gone.

Joby Warrick

#21. Remember what we wrote? 'And just as I cannot imagine how I survived the past without you ... I cannot imagine a future without you.' Remember? Well, I'm the future without her, buddy boy, and I can tell you right now that it's not something you're going to relish.

Peter David

#22. When we imagine future circumstances, we fill in details that won't really come to pass and leave out details that will. When we imagine future feelings, we find it impossible to ignore what we are feeling now and impossible to recognize how we will think about the things that happen later.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#23. When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

Rodney Brooks

#24. A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

Victor Cherbuliez

#25. Dragonflies didn't imagine they could sense the future; they just flew about, enjoying the sun on their wings.

Kate Morton

#26. Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN

David Nicholls

#27. One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.

Michael Sandel

#28. The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright-and in the long run, that's how it will be.

David Gelernter

#29. Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.

David Ignatius

#30. I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

Barbara Kingsolver

#31. If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.

Dean Cavanagh

#32. A lot of stuff you hear on the radio is like instant hooky pop, but I can't imagine it being covered in the future by other artists. It's really for themselves.

Andy Bell

#33. I always sense the future, the antithesis of everything is always before my eyes. I have never seen a child without thinking that it would grow old, nor a cradle without thinking of a grave. The sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton.

Paul Auster

#34. When you can clearly see yourself being there, you can see much more clearly how to get there. You can imagine the path to your dreams, and then start to actually walk it. Play an active role in your own future. Imagine with passion and detail how you'd most like it to be.

Ralph Marston

#35. Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make.
The Killer Hook

Michael Chabon

#36. Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

Lewis Thomas

#37. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.

George Orwell

#38. I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

Henri Coanda

#39. [ ... ] little Belgium once again busy at what she does best, tamely offering her battlefield-ready lowlands to boots, hooves, iron wheels, waiting to be first to go under before a future no one in Europe has the clairvoyance to imagine as anything more than an exercise for clerks.

Thomas Pynchon

#40. Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you

Napoleon Hill

#41. We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine.

Yuval Noah Harari

#42. When the bet is placed," he said, "a moment is carved away from the past and the future. In that enchanted moment, anything is possible. A man's debts and regrets and limitations disappear. He is buyin' the chance to imagine - for one moment at a time - that th enext card I deal will make him rich.

Mary Doria Russell

#43. I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.

Emmi Itaranta

#44. If you need a reason to get involved in world politics, all you need to do is watch a playground of children for awhile. Imagine a world that happy and free all the time, that vision is the future worth fighting for.

Laurance Kitts

#45. I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.

David Greenberg

#46. The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#47. Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

Margaret Atwood

#48. In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire - not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.

Dexter Palmer

#49. I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

Yves Behar

#50. Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume; to reshape how we live and work, or even to imagine the jobs that will be needed for transition

Ellen MacArthur

#51. But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

Toni Morrison

#52. But bid life seize the present?
It lives less in the present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
Than in the past.
The present
Is too much for the senses,
Too crowding, too confusing
Too present to imagine.

Robert Frost

#53. I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.

Nicholas Sparks

#54. I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

Bauvard

#55. You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer. But everything imagined began with a dream.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#56. A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist.

Brian Eno

#57. I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen.

Jojo Moyes

#58. Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past. I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.

George Watsky

#59. For too long, I've made my past my future, afraid to imagine anything else. And I acted like that - static - afraid of my own kinetic energy. Maybe it's time to start imagining, maybe it's time to be in motion. Maybe it's time for me to fight back against the sadness inside of me.

Jasmine Warga

#60. The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

George Bernard Shaw

#61. Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

David Viscott

#62. Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.

Robert Lanza

#63. Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe.

Isaac Asimov

#64. For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level of the immediate moment - but in the prospect of suffering to come, the rich future that one can imagine one's torture enjoying.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

#65. If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

Jonny Greenwood

#66. You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#67. Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.

Steve Kaufman

#68. You travel safely too, Auntie Diana. And bring that uncle of mine with you, Gallowglass said to the sea and the sky before he climbed back onto his bike and headed into a future he could no longer imagine nor postpone.

Deborah Harkness

#69. I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.

Benjamin Kunkel

#70. In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.

Rebecca Solnit

#71. What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

S.A. Tawks

#72. Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But by setting out from it and adding to it, you renew its power, because only by addition can you prepare the future path for the living sap within it.

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

#73. Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing ...

Don DeLillo

#74. I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

Michael Arad

#75. I'm not going anywhere, Maddie. You mean everything to me-you saved me from the darkness and brought me to the light. And I can't imagine a future without you in it. I intend on spending the rest of my life with you.

Katie Ashley

#76. Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.

Dan Pearce

#77. Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.

Robert Dale Owen

#78. Say all the bad things you can imagine so they won't happen.

Anonymous

#79. A "renegade dream" is to imagine a different future for yourself and your community even when living a life that's at odds with the dignity of your aspirations.

Laurence Ralph

#80. ...you don't have the memory of your future; {that}the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and that, in the end, we always act in the dark. The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine.

Rebecca Solnit

#81. I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Vinton Cerf

#82. We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing.

M.L. Stedman

#83. A young reader finding this book today, or the day after tomorrow, is going to have to imagine first a past, and then a future that belongs to that past.

Ray Bradbury

#84. But the future bores me.
I imagine following it like a leaf into traffic.
I imagine eating it like a heart made of oatmeal.

Laura Kasischke

#85. I always teased her I'd serve her lemonade out there. It would be the perfect place for us - the meeting of worlds. But at the moment, it was hard to imagine a future like that.

Richelle Mead

#86. Imagine for a moment that you were free of all the expectations in your life. What would you do? How would you live your life with no one watching? What would your future look like?

Kim Holden

#87. The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

William Gibson

#88. These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

Wadah Khanfar

#89. Lately, the thought of tomorrow is like the thought of a hundred years into the future. Who can imagine that Germany will still exist?

Aleksandr Voinov

#90. I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.

Christopher Moore

#91. Look beyond the present circumstances, imagine a brighter future.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#92. I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.

Craig Venter

#93. To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

Henry Miller

#94. I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in al manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future.

Ransom Riggs

#95. I sometimes try to imagine what future historians will say about us. They'll be able to sum up modern man in a single sentence: he fornicated and read the papers. After that robust description, I should guess there will be no more to say on the subject.

Albert Camus

#96. You will always be the most important thing in my life. I'll always be there for you no matter what or who. I have no past without you and I can't imagine a future that doesn't include you. I just need some time to figure out how I can have you in my life without having you be my life.

Alison G. Bailey

#97. You are my everything, my future, my Lila. I'm in love with you. I'm so in love with you I can't even imagine my life without you. You fill my heart and you make me whole. No one will ever compare to you or the way you make me feel.

K.I. Lynn

#98. Our vocabulary may become a real time algorithmic word bank.
Could you imagine having a conversation like that?
Where the meaning of words constantly adapts?

Natasha Tsakos

#99. Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary organizing begins by creating images and stories of the future that help us imagine and create alternatives to the existing system.

Grace Lee Boggs

#100. Time would not change what I was feeling
or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing. My future was blurry, yes, but I was beginning to imagine a future when I would no longer miss him at all.

Tammara Webber