Quotes About Thinking About Your Future

#1. You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.'
'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.

James Baldwin

#2. Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#3. I work out. I try to work out every day. That keeps me in the moment, which is great. Keeps my head from thinking about the future and the past too much. I love working out. That really helps me a lot.

John Rzeznik

#4. There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

Dru Pagliassotti

#5. So much of our thinking is involved with things we've already done and things we have yet to do. It's almost impossible not to be thinking about some future moment or some past mistake or tragedy.

Alexis M. Smith

#6. I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

Billie Jean King

#7. Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.

Steve Wozniak

#8. I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

Shane Filan

#9. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Kahlil Gibran

#10. beyond that, I couldn't say. There's no point thinking about the future. That

Banana Yoshimoto

#11. I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

Ram Dass

#12. Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future - present-mindedness is your only safe haven.

Bryant McGill

#13. What is the conceptual tie that binds anxiety and planning? Both, of course, are intimately connected to thinking about the future.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#14. When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.

Tinie Tempah

#15. Today is what's thought about long ago. Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.

Hartmut Esslinger

#16. Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.

Birdman

#17. The biblical doctrine of hell reshapes all our thinking about the future of this world and its inhabitants.

Owen Strachan

#18. I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

Robert Greene

#19. 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

#20. Thinking deeply about your choices and actions from the stance of your future self can serve as both a motivational and a corrective force.

Cheryl Strayed

#21. You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

Piper Kernan

#22. Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.

Robert L. Rosen

#23. Always think about your future with a smile on your face, because your thoughts will eventually become your future.

Lilly Ghalichi

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. - Alaska

John Green

#27. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. ( ... ) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

John Green

#28. Next time you try to do something and fail, and it really was partly in your control, be honest about
why you failed--but also, what you can do better in the future. It's easy to see that blaming
circumstance robs you of opportunities to learn.

Rohvannyn Shaw

#29. I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'

Christopher Plummer

#30. Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life

Rhonda Byrne

#31. Living rationally and authentically does not mean that you map out your future by thinking carefully about what it would be like if you chose one path versus another path and then choosing on that basis.

L.A. Paul

#32. Your thoughts of today are the foundation stones of your future, so make sure you want to experience what your thinking about

Deon Potgieter

#33. I'd love to do a fashion label in the future. I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe making a line of little dresses, so maybe one day.

Georgia May Jagger

#34. You needed a vision of the future in order to get anywhere; you couldn't live life thinking you were always about to fall off a cliff.

Alexandra Kleeman

#35. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.

Carlos Wallace

#36. I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Bob Riley

#37. You can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.

Sam Altman

#38. Women feel lonely, they remember the past and start thinking about the present or the future. However, men feel lonely so he gets horny

Various

#39. You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.

Karrie Webb

#40. Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Carlos Santana

#41. I often think about my future wife and how lax she's been about getting in touch with me.

Ted Alexandro

#42. When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore in 1992 - from the same generational, ideological, and geographical background as his - it underscored his campaign's central argument that this was a clash between the past and the future, that 'Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow' was indeed the campaign's anthem.

Jeff Greenfield

#43. I don't think about the real future very much.

William Gibson

#44. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future

Amitav Ghosh

#45. I am possibly thinking about doing an Internet show in the future that will highlight political organizations that I seek out to let people know about them, volunteer opportunities, and donation opportunities.

Kathleen Hanna

#46. We sit in silence for a minute. Thinking about the freedom we don't have and the future we can't control.

Chelsea Fine

#47. If the restrictions on the work of my party and on me personally are not removed in the very, very near future - that is in a matter of days - I think the United States should start thinking seriously of sanctions. This is really about as bad as it has ever been.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#48. I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

Amy Winehouse

#49. Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

Hugh Hefner

#50. If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

John Galsworthy

#51. I could see Grant thinking about this, trying to grasp the chasm between the finality in my voice and his vision of our future, and bridging the divide with a combination of hope and lies.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#52. We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

Chuck Klosterman

#53. You have to stop thinking about Billystorm in that way, right now! You have a different destiny, one that involves the future of the whole Clan. And it is a path that you must walk alone.

Erin Hunter

#54. Things will happen that you can't prevent, things will fall apart that you can't hold together, but ultimately you're shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.

Erik Tomblin

#55. My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

Michel Martelly

#56. One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.

Bobby Schilling

#57. A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.

R.D. Laing

#58. I don't want to worry anymore thinking about the future. Mi Rae ... 'Mi' meaning not yet. 'Rae' meaning coming. Why should I decide on the present, thinking about the future that's not here yet? I won't do that anymore.

Yoon Mi-rae

#59. Positive thinkers focus their minds on the future; they are never complacent about where they are.

Israelmore Ayivor

#60. It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.

Roy Bennett

#61. I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

John Cale

#62. Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

Conan O'Brien

#63. When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

Jessie J.

#64. What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.

Michelle Obama