Quotes About About The Future

#1. When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

Bodhidharma

#2. Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Alan Watts

#3. Be positive about the future. The road ahead will be worth it!

Denise Austin

#4. Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Joyce Meyer

#5. Forecasts vary in horizon, from a few seconds up to a few days in financial markets, compared to from one to several months for macro variables. We have to provide uncertainty intervals around the central forecasts to indicate the extent to which we are unclear about the future.

Clive Granger

#6. How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

Lee Smolin

#7. Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#8. I hope people will think very carefully about the future,

Queen Elizabeth II

#9. To think clearly about the future, we need to clean up the language that we use in labeling the beliefs we had in the past.

Daniel Kahneman

#10. Anxiety is stemmed from worrying about the past and worrying about the future!

John Di Lemme

#11. You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

Yvon Chouinard

#12. 12 Keep your thoughts positive about the future, as what you are thinking influences your future. This is a message to keep your faith and hope strong, because these are strong determining factors right now.

Doreen Virtue

#13. Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the rings. Occasionally I think about the future, but I try to do that sparingly because it usually makes me anxious.

Amy Poehler

#14. He was rambling. But, oddly, his mind felt clearer now than it had in weeks. Perhaps it was the clarity of perspective. Most men spent their entire lives wondering about the future. Well, his future was empty now.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Don't grieve over the past,
It's all gone!
Don't worry about the future, It may never come!
Live in the present,
And enjoy every moment

Mouloud Benzadi

#16. The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of people are no longer cursing the darkness and have started lighting candles and doing positive things.

Paul Tagliabue

#17. Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

Bill Bryson

#18. Spurs fans are feeling very boyish about the future

Alan Brazil

#19. The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Freeman Dyson

#20. Forget about the Past; Don't Worry about the Future; Live Today!-RVM

R.v.m.

#21. I worry about the future of this country for our kids and grandkids and America not being on the world stage and that vacuum being filled by the likes of Vladimir Putin.

Sean Hannity

#22. I feel really good about the future and working with people.

Angel Olsen

#23. Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

Michael Gove

#24. My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

Brian Andreas

#25. I'm blessed, because of my faith, that I don't have to worry about the future because I know who holds my future

Tim Tebow

#26. Something that makes it possible for me to start thinking about the future again.

Henning Mankell

#27. What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Thomas A Kempis

#28. God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.

Priscilla Shirer

#29. If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay, then you're in deep trouble. Once you make a certain kind of peace with the past, then you should be completely oriented towards speculation about the future.

Kerry James Marshall

#30. It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

Jeff Hawkins

#31. Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come ... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Audrey Hepburn

#32. Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW ... always.

Mark Twain

#33. Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot - about the world we live in, and about our own past.

Brian Christian

#34. When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Patrick Rothfuss

#35. The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.

J.H. Wyman

#36. I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

Itzhak Perlman

#37. The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out.

Dan Simmons

#38. There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

Joe Haldeman

#39. For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

Malala Yousafzai

#40. I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

Camille Paglia

#41. 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.

Hillary Clinton

#42. Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

Carl Hiaasen

#43. The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Mitch Daniels

#44. History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

Richelle Mead

#45. I think every election is sui generis. I think it starts with where we are in the country at this time, with what Americans are thinking, feeling and hoping, and it proceeds from there. And it is always about the future.

Hillary Clinton

#46. Don't worry about the future;worry about now.

Simone Russell

#47. No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

Chen Guangcheng

#48. My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Bobby Darin

#49. A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

Dave Morris

#50. I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

H.W. Brands

#51. One of the worst things you can ever think of is not feeling excited about the future".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#52. Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Bill Bryson

#53. Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you'll rebuild your life in a few short years.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#54. You have to tailor yourself to everybody. Sometimes people need a firmer hand; some people you can have a laugh with, and they concentrate more. What they needed was more certainty about the future of the company.

Mike Krieger

#55. But I realized something. When you spend so much of your life worried about the future...you forget to live" -Alice

Kirsten Hubbard

#56. I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

Harold Prince

#57. Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Thomas Friedman

#58. Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

Mark McKinnon

#59. I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

Wilma Mankiller

#60. Don't get me wrong - I was not a Nazi, and in my eyes Hitler seemed like some absurd character in an operetta. But, it would have been almost impossible not to be infected by the optimism about the future, which was rife among ordinary people in Hamburg. - Henrik Vanger

Stieg Larsson

#61. The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

Gary Shteyngart

#62. Panky thinking: We had nuclear holocaust on our lips, Big Brother on our minds, 1984 was just around the corner and we were shit scared about the future - George Orwell and Margaret Thatcher had a lot to answer for.

Peter L Masters

#63. We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Charles Kettering

#64. It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

Rudy Rucker

#65. Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

George Leonard

#66. I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

David Hockney

#67. Regulate your mind. Do not worry excessively about the future. If you have done everything that has to be done, the future will take care of itself.

Choa Kok Sui

#68. Nervousness kill us ... because we think we have only one opportunity that is in the Present and we don't think about the future! We loose our balance.

Vikram Roy

#69. The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.

Human Angels

#70. Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past. ELLEN VAUGHN1

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#71. Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

Billy Corgan

#72. He took comfort in not knowing about the future.

Gloria Steinem

#73. When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities ... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

Jane Byrne

#74. To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.

Kevin Rudd

#75. You see, dream-lover of a lady, what shakes me to the core Is the thought as you caress me, you've done this all before I think about the future with me out and others in Will I, too, have disappeared like I've never ever been?

Harry Chapin

#76. You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

James Altucher

#77. 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

#78. The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.

Charlie Munger

#79. The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#80. What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?

Olga Kurylenko

#81. There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

Michael Ian Black

#82. When you are unsure about the future, keep doing what is in front of you with all your heart and with love, and what is meant for you will find you.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#83. Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

Paul Samuelson

#84. I'm just enjoying life more and thinking about the future.

Sebastian Janikowski

#85. Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more states to go. We're feeling good about the future.

Bernie Sanders

#86. We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.

Karen Kain

#87. If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.

Jason David Frank

#88. Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Evelyn Waugh

#89. We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

George Jackson

#90. Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you

Katy Perry

#91. I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

Russell Smith

#92. From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.

Peter Thiel

#93. So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

Dalton McGuinty

#94. I'm worried about the future of computer operating systems, as they all seem to be sliding towards a more controlled experience, taking away much of what makes PC games so much fun.

Markus Persson

#95. We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#96. Don't ask me anything about the future," he said miserably. "I don't know anything. Be with me now, will you, no matter what it is?" And she took him in her arms.

D.H. Lawrence

#97. I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future.

Julie Murphy

#98. If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.

Lanford Wilson

#99. I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

David Souter

#100. My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.

Saina Nehwal