Top 100 Quotes About The Future
#1. For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years.
Steve Blank
#2. The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.
Marshall McLuhan
#3. Your misery will cause you to grow and for see the future.
Euginia Herlihy
#4. Globalization replaced technology as the hope for the future. Since the '90s migration "from bricks to clicks" didn't work as hoped, investors went back to bricks (housing) and BRICs (globalization). The result was another bubble, this time in real estate.
Peter Thiel
#5. It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
Thomas Starr King
#6. I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.
Gore Vidal
#7. Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But ... I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people.
Agnes Kamara-umunna
#8. Act always as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference.
Anonymous
#9. I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
Penn Jillette
#10. Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.
Hannah Arendt
#11. If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.
Henry Ford
#12. I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.
Oswald Chambers
#13. The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.
Marshall McLuhan
#14. 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
#15. The lone attendant wasn't paying any attention to the register; he just stood, mouth half open, holding the remote like maybe if he could change the channel he could change the future. The Moon was gone.
John Joseph Adams
#16. Through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future - which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.
Eckhart Tolle
#17. Not to destroy but to construct,
I hold the unconquerable belief
that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
that nations will come together
not to destroy but to construct
and that the future belongs to those
who accomplish most for humanity.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#18. Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
Bill Gates
#19. Well, Grimm is important to me for obvious reasons. I'm lucky to be able to do what I love to do for a living. I never, ever forget that. And charity work just helps me feel like I'm doing something to support my belief that we are all one. I'd like to actually do more in the future.
Reggie Lee
#20. More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.
Jeff Sessions
#21. Music is a very good way of thinking about time. A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next ... Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future.
Francois Lelord
#22. There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
Chuck Palahniuk
#23. The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.
Cassius Jackson Keyser
#24. I would've loved to have children and I'm really good with kids, but I just didn't want to commit to anything when I had cancer. I didn't want to plan for the future.
Frazer Hines
#25. The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.
Joanna Macy
#26. This is real. This is what's important to me now. I'm not worried about the future, whatever it brings. I have all I need, right here.
Julie Kagawa
#28. 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
#29. We believe the future come from a dream, no matter who or where, can make it happen.
Akbar De Wighar
#30. Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.
Michael Bassey
#31. We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean me and I mean you. It is the future of our country-yours and mine-which is at stake.
Henry Ford II
#32. I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Maggie Smith
#33. if we move beyond the education bubble that we're living in today, the future will be one in which people can speak about these things more clearly.
Timothy Ferriss
#34. Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.
Sylvia Earle
#35. The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.
Sidney Sheldon
#36. A nation's preoccupation with history is not infrequently an effort to obtain a passport for the future. Often it is a forged passport.
Eric Hoffer
#37. Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.
John Brunner
#38. The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.
Roger Garaudy
#40. As a man, this child would be one's offering to the future races of men. The burden of his upbringing, wherever it fell: however tiresome or onerous, was of no importance compared with his living grasp of the future.
Dorothy Dunnett
#41. We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us
J.G. Ballard
#42. When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.
Erwin McManus
#43. The reason God knows the future is because he plans the future and accomplishes it.
John Piper
#44. So when you look to the future for salvation, you are unconsciously looking to your own mind for salvation.
Eckhart Tolle
#45. Science fiction is not about the future. Like all other fiction, it is about the present. It simply uses different techniques to show us who we are, who we might be, and whom we ought to become.
Orson Scott Card
#46. Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns
Stephen Baxter
#47. Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
Harriet Harman
#48. The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
John Dewey
#49. Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.
Henry Gee
#50. In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
Padmasree Warrior
#51. The future is a blue sky and a full tank of gas.
Neil Hilborn
#52. The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time
for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
C.S. Lewis
#53. Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far future actions with what is done today. The impact of emissions that are made after 2100 has no bearing on what the world should do for the next 30 or even 100 years.
Robert O. Mendelsohn
#54. The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.
Mark Zandi
#55. What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.
John Marsden
#56. The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.
Steven Pressfield
#58. When life is empty, with respect to the past, and aimless, with respect to the future, the vacuum is filled by the present - normally reduced to a hairline, a split second in which there is no time for anything to happen.
Alan W. Watts
#59. Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#60. You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?
CLAMP
#61. People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.
Mark Zuckerberg
#62. Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#63. The past needs the present and grows the future.
N.M. Singel
#64. Take time to laugh; it is the music of the soul.
Take time to be friendly; it is the road to happiness.
Take time to dream; it is what the future is made of..
Unknown
#65. Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future ... In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.
Billy Graham
#67. A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
Bill McKibben
#68. We are neither of us the people we were then. Let us look on the past only as it gives us pleasure, and to the future with confidence and hope.
P.D. James
#69. Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#70. The future is what's wrong with the world today. There's too much future and not enough past!
Archie Bunker
#71. My divine sign indicates the future to me.
Socrates
#72. Too often our visions of the future
are dull and impotent
like a hammer beating the water.
Harley King
#74. Why dwell on the past, when we have yet to write the future
P.A. Henley
#75. I believe that nothing passes without a trace and that each of our smallest steps has significance for the present and the future.
Anton Chekhov
#76. Being a team player will help you climb the ladder of success. Furthermore, a successful team player can rise to the level of team leader in the future.
Vishwas Chavan
#77. The future chief justice of the United States told the delegates that an independent federal judiciary was a necessary bulwark against an overreaching Congress. If Congress were to exceed its powers, said Marshall, it would be the duty of the judiciary to declare the action void. Marshall
James F. Simon
#78. Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.
Brian Eno
#79. In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.'
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
#80. I fell in love with the possibilities of telling the story in the future, and married that quickly.
J.H. Wyman
#81. Suppose we took a thousand negatives ...
combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.
Berenice Abbott
#82. Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.
Tucker Max
#83. I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
Jay Weatherill
#84. A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.
Betty Friedan
#85. The only way to change the future is to change the present.
Seohyun
#86. All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?
Max Lucado
#87. The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.
John F. Kennedy
#88. As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future ... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
Feist
#89. squeezed the present for all it was worth. He believed meaning is found only in the present, for the past is gone and the future looms indeterminate if it arrives at all.
William Manchester
#90. It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it
Marshall McLuhan
#91. The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.
Danielle Panabaker
#93. Whatever the future holds, we'll face it together, Jack. Our job is not to predict the future, but rather to build it.
Matt Myklusch
#94. There are nine million servers sold annually. Of those, just one million are sourced by the big guys. What we're trying to predict is: in the future, is that all going into the one million category? Or will there be some balance?
Satya Nadella
#95. Toffler's Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.
John Brunner
#96. In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time - we might prescribe apps.
Daniel Kraft
#98. I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
Flavor Flav
#99. The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#100. Jesus told us to look at the birds; they don't worry about the future because our Heavenly Father feeds them. I think that's why they praise Him.
Lynn Austin
