Top 100 Quotes About Future Possibilities
#2. To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.
Gordon W. Allport
#3. People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
John Moody
#4. The power of positive thinking begins when you refuse to accept defeat, and start preparing yourself for future possibilities. The only thing standing in the way of your breakthrough, is you!
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#5. Do not let your divorce define you and the rest of your life. Let go of anger and embrace the future possibilities of infinitesimal happiness
Divorce Goddess
#6. Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
Jason Silva
#7. 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
#8. I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
Ken Burns
#9. Any path which narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap. Humans are not threading their way through a maze; they scan a vast horizon filled with unique opportunities.
Frank Herbert
#10. And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.
Dan Lipinski
#11. Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.
Frances G. Wickes
#12. As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
Emily Greene Balch
#13. Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.
Frances Moore Lappe
#14. The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race.
Francis William Aston
#15. True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.
Seth Brown
#16. I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do.
Kiera Cass
#17. I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
Henrik Ibsen
#18. I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else ... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.
Audrey Tautou
#19. Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.
Orrin Woodward
#20. Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#21. Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.
Susan Sontag
#22. Maybe it's because I look into the future professionally, but I see great possibilities for both humanity and our planet. I don't believe the thriving of one has to come at the expense of the other, and I'm deeply concerned to find out whether other people do think that.
Karl Schroeder
#23. As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.
Dexter Palmer
#24. When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller
#25. But the future lay open, a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with a small quick heartbeat, delicate and impatient
Jonathan Safran Foer
#26. The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.
Erving Polster
#27. Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.
Robin Sharma
#28. Act on the possibilities and opportunities in front of you. Your future will be bright and blissful, whatever you do.
Debasish Mridha
#29. To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
Rebecca Solnit
#30. Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.
Marcia Whicker
#31. Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit - by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind's eye and giving it shape and life.
Warren Berger
#32. I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough. Those reasons can stem from the past - the people who raised us, maybe, or friends or lovers - or from the future - the possibilities we would be switching off.
Matt Haig
#33. One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future.
Lionel Suggs
#34. I do not wish to know what happened to Scout Finch. I wish her to remain forever young in my imagination, her future one of infinite possibilities.
Eric Rickstad
#35. What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.
Carl Jung
#36. The only path to finding out what life is about is a patient, slow attempt to make sense of the realities of the past and the possibilities of the future as they can be understood in the present.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#37. The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.
Timothy Leary
#38. There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
Damian Woetzel
#39. What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.
Joe Rogan
#40. All results no matter how magnificent are infinitesimal when compared to future possibility.
James Arthur Ray
#41. Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.
Herman Kahn
#42. Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.
Bill Jensen
#43. I have a very, very good life. I'm grateful for all of my friends, my family and the life that I have, and the possibilities in my future.
Raquel Welch
#44. When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.
Shannon L. Alder
#45. When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future
Aberjhani
#46. 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
#47. We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our knowledge and our love. That, it seems to me, is the distillation of The Phenomenon of Man.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#48. The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead
big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.
Bruce Lee
#49. If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.
Thomas Merton
#50. Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?
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Michelle Carithers
#51. As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.
Van Deren Coke
#52. Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
Gelsey Kirkland
#53. When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities
Zig Ziglar
#54. Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
Maria Montessori
#55. Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities ...
Koji Suzuki
#56. 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
#57. Progress is possible only when people believe in the possibilities of growth and change. Races or tribes die out not just when they are conquered and suppressed but when they accept their defeated condition, become despairing, and lose their excitement about the future. Norman Cousins Americans
Howard Bloom
#58. Learn from your past, use the possibilities of the present moment, and let the future open the doors of opportunity.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
#60. The future is always unknown. Don't worry about the future. Appreciate the present and be hopeful for the future.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#61. In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of the present and of future moments.
Frederick Lenz
#62. God reveals future events through dreams, vision and the sacred voice.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#63. The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.
John Dewey
#64. I am looking for a future for myself. I like to hear about the possibilities of others.
Kathryn Stockett
#65. The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
John Sculley
#66. I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.
David Warlick
#67. I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.
Damien Hirst
#68. What is past, but unalterable truth; life, just a pile of regrets; future, just a sum total of possibilities, and you...? just another trapped soul...
Gayathri Jayakumar
#69. Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Haruki Murakami
#70. Our moods change constantly and thus our ideas about the past change with them. As for the future, it remains unwritten. Anything can happen, and often we are wrong. The best we can do with the future is prepare and savor the possibilities of what can be done in the present.
Todd Kashdan
#71. She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars.
And really, that was enough.
Melissa Landers
#72. I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.
Eskinder Nega
#73. As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us.
Moshe Sharett
#74. Life is not always about a past filled with mysteries or a future filled with endless dark possibilities ... it is also about a present filled with timeless distractions.
Con Template
#75. The future is all possibilities, but the past is set in stone. All those ghosts of ourselves, our youth, still alive inside us, but out of our reach forever. We meet them when we close our eyes, when we let our memories come alive. But that's all they are. Memories. No more real than a dream.
Wendy Mass
#76. The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
Maria Montessori
#77. No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
Octavia Butler
#78. The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
Gifford Pinchot
#79. The main focus of this group is to help bridge the gifts and abilities of the pastor (and other staff) and laity in the church. Building the bridges that will link the faithfulness of the past with the possibilities of the future is crucial.
General Board Of Discipleship
#80. While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.
John Templeton
#81. I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.
Lionel Suggs
#82. Fanning out the possibilities in front of me like paint chips - How lovely this would look on your future!
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#83. I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.
Angela Davis
#84. I want you," Drew said. "Just you. I used to go through every day without thinking about the future, but with you all I can see are the possibilities of the experiences we could have together.
Michelle Madow
#85. Look, you think I like history because I'm fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you're wrong. I like it because it's the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They're anyone's guess.
Rebecca Serle
#86. Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities.
Ellen J. Barrier
#87. Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Where would any of us be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum.
Nick Vujicic
#88. Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
David Whyte
#89. You have to choose what you want to be.
You have to choose your own path in life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#90. Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Norbert Wiener
#91. Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities. How we think and how we behave determine where we are going
Marianne Williamson
#92. By letting go with gratitude, you are not losing anything, but you are gaining the wisdom, present moment, and future of endless possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
#93. To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
Edward De Bono
#94. It isn't the amount you spend today, it's what you want to invest in for the future!
Tyler J. Suiters
#95. The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
Terry Brooks
#96. If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.
David H. McConnell
#97. 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
#98. To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.
Michael Doucet
#99. It was in the waiting that a person experienced too much of himself. Memories, doubts, regrets, anxieties, the whole range of possibilities the future contained
they all swirled together in the mind like a soup.
Justin Cronin
#100. The future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities.
L.M. Montgomery
