Open Future Quotes

#1. The young rarely believe that they will not be able to get what they want, because there is always an open future.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Simone De Beauvoir

#3. We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.

Daniel Dennett

#4. To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. Think Positively.
Network well.
Eat healthy.
Work Smart.
Stay Strong.
Build faith.
Worry less.
Read more.
Be happy.
Volunteer freely.
Relax often.
Love always.
Live eternally
and you will see doors open to your favor.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#6. The arts world prides itself on its diversity, inclusivity, open-mindedness and constant efforts to reach out to all. Yet at the very moment when Britain decides its future, hardly anyone in the arts seems to understand, let alone agree with, the opinion of at least half the population.

Richard Morrison

#7. There's an ongoing competition by global companies across all areas from products, technology development and hiring talented people to patent disputes. The market is big and opportunities are wide open, so we should find out new businesses that Samsung's future will hinge on.

Lee Kun-hee

#8. I'm going to do whatever the world tells me to. I'm going to act like I'm in a goddamn Bob Dylan song and blow in the direction of the wind. I'm going to pretend my future's wide open, and that anything can happen.

Nicola Yoon

#9. The past is a closed door, the present is an open one, and the future is an approaching one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.

Kurt Schrader

#11. It's time that we finally admitted that we can see the love that's everywhere, filial and romantic and platonic and shared by all different types of people, in all different combinations. This is the future. All we have to do is open our eyes, and see.

Seanan McGuire

#12. If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

Leon Brown

#13. When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

Kate McGahan

#14. Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future.

Jonas Mekas

#15. To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#16. We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue ... that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,

Alain J. P. Belda

#17. I've come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what's ahead and feel the peace that "all is well in the universe." When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future.

Marci Shimoff

#18. Powerful Leaders are intentional about not repeating history by always being open to the unprecedented; what's in your future?

Michael Walker

#19. We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the future to act therein as they wish.

Tayeb Salih

#20. Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.

Heidi

#21. Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

James Gleick

#22. I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider that the sky and higher than the Andes.

Laura Resau

#23. The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.

Kobi Yamada

#24. Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

Shawn Amos

#25. The Russell Cosmogony with its new concepts of light, matter, energy, electricity and magnetism is a simple yet complete, consistent and workable cosmogony which will enable future scientists to visualize the universe as a unified whole, and will open the door to the New Age of Transmutation.

Walter Russell

#26. Learn from your past, use the possibilities of the present moment, and let the future open the doors of opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#27. We open our desire for a bright future to your hearts

Holly Bodger

#28. Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

Ulrich Beck

#29. The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

Deepak Chopra

#30. Having an honest relationship with time is no simple task. First, you have to open up to the possibility that time is your friend, there to help you, and that recording future plans in whatever way you see fit isn't a burden but rather something that strengthens your pursuit of your dreams.

Lanna Nakone

#31. We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#32. Chances in future are just like sunlight, open the windows to see them.

Ali Rezavand Zayeri

#33. We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

John Eaton

#34. We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Pope Francis

#35. Closing the door on your past, gives you the keys to open the door to your limitless future.

Dr. Eddie M. Connor Jr

#36. The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.

M. E. W. Sherwood

#37. I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

Nicole Kidman

#38. The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

Faith Baldwin

#39. The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Terry Eagleton

#40. The window of opportunity to plan and prepare for the end of his life had closed gradually. Any cracks left open to talk candidly were tenuous and fleeting.

Lisa J. Shultz

#41. Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.

Robert Richardson

#42. Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.

Antony Gormley

#43. Going through open doors means I will have to be able to trust God with my future when the path I'm called to take does not look like the obvious one.

John Ortberg

#44. There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Your future shifts and warps with your smallest step, your shitty little whims. The man you will become is at your mercy.

Dan Chaon

#45. As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.

Marvin Ammori

#46. Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#47. My ears are open to all sorts of stuff. I appreciate some of the big electro house guys.I love their music but I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of the U.K. Future garage stuff. A lot of stuff like that.

A-Trak

#48. To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

#49. Holding on to the past means you can never be open to having a future

Laurann Dohner

#50. I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

#51. The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#52. Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on - information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.

Mark Williams

#53. I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

Toussaint Louverture

#54. The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

Claudia Rankine

#55. He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff, staring into a vertiginous rush of open sky.

Helene Wecker

#56. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#57. God, please now my future see, make it clear where I should be. Open windows, close the doors, not my will, my God, but Yours.

Karen Kingsbury

#58. It's our job in education to free up time for innovation. It's our job to open their minds to new ideas. It's our job to prepare them for the present and future possibilities.

A.J. Juliani

#59. When man is born, the human race as well as the individual, he is thrown out of a situation which was definite, as definite as the instincts, into a situation which is indefinite, uncertain and open. There is certainty only about the past - and about the future only as far as that it is death.

Erich Fromm

#60. If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

#61. Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan W. Watts

#62. I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.

Sam Zell

#63. The future belongs to thouse with open minds aand open hearts, who can appreciate beauty in all it's forms.

Kevyn Aucoin

#64. We must work together to strengthen Jerusalem as a modern, open capital and to foster welcoming, inclusive communities across the Jewish world. It is vital to the health and vibrancy of the global Jewish future and to ensuring a strong Israel.

Lynn Schusterman

#65. Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

Jessica Lange

#66. Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

Bryant H. McGill

#67. I can't change the past, I can only walk into my future with eyes wide open, taking responsibility for myself and my actions.

Elle Casey

#68. An open mind and helpful hands can do much to change a dog's future.

Mary Debono

#69. It was a fitting animal for a priest. Cats guard the secrets of the otherworld and are liaisons with mystic realms. Protectors of esoteric knowledge, cats can open the gates through which a priest can see the future and gain insight.

M.J. Rose

#70. In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by graduation.

Charles Darwin

#71. Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.

Lee Kun-hee

#72. I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

Irvin D. Yalom

#73. But it is not really necessary to look too far into the future; we see enough already to be certain that it will be magnificent. Only let us hurry and open the roads.

David McCullough

#74. If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Margaret Mead

#75. The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.

Bruce Sterling

#76. When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

Shannon L. Alder

#77. It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

Nick Baylis

#78. Your future is only as bright as your mind is open.

Rich Wilkins

#79. When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.

Charlie Crist

#80. Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal.

Derek Thompson

#81. Waiting well looks forward to the future while staying present in the present. Waiting well means I remain open to God and allow Him to move me toward the future He has planned, in His time.

Wendy Pope

#82. The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.

Thomas Paine

#83. No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

William Beckford

#84. All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

Pema Chodron

#85. Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.

Mark Rutte

#86. Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

Karl Popper

#87. We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything ... so who knows what the future will hold?

Rostam Batmanglij

#88. It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

Gabe Newell

#89. I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared) will muddle through to a freer, more open, less crowded, green and spacious agrarian society. (Maybe; of course it may be only a repeat of the middle ages.)

Edward Abbey

#90. Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.

Yochai Benkler

#91. While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

Robert E. Howard

#92. Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.

Dean Koontz

#93. The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.

Pope Benedict XVI

#94. When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation, or regret. This means that the mind is left open to Being, the simplest state of awareness.

Deepak Chopra

#95. The future is built by people's hopes, boy! That's why I can see it so clearly! Anyway, make a wish! Open your mouth, say the words ... and who knows? It may come true! What do you wish for, boy?

Sakura Tsukuba

#96. Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

John Jacob Abel

#97. Poetry alters my dna. every poem is a different life. every poem brings me closer to myself. and breaks open a new future inside of me.

Nayyirah Waheed

#98. When leaders wonder what they can do to position their societies for the industries of the future, they need to open up and resist control-freak tendencies. The 21st century is a terrible time to be a control freak; future grown depends on empowering people.

Alec J. Ross

#99. I can never say that I will never return to musical theatre. There may be a part in the future that I really want to do. I love plays as well. I am very open to ideas. I hope to do many things in the future.

Sarah Brightman

#100. We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us

J.G. Ballard