Quotes About Visions Of The Future

#1. The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Joel A. Barker

#2. I had this crazy, a bit of a near-death experience in Estonia. I had these visions of the future but I was in this state where I felt the past, the present, and the future were all happening at the same time.

Taraka Larson

#3. I was never sure what vampire powers Teddy had been gifted with. Victoria had the ability to read minds. Meekah could see visions of the future. Michael had been given eternal sexiness, I guessed.

S.J. Wright

#4. Too often our visions of the future
are dull and impotent
like a hammer beating the water.

Harley King

#5. Men and women do not posses visions of the future. They are possesed by them.

Ted Bundy

#6. Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

Jay Chiat

#7. Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

Scilla Elworthy

#8. The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.

A.O. Scott

#9. You're our honorary sixth member with mysterious abilities and visions of the future. The Snow White to our motley group of dwarfs. Plus, you're way better looking than the rest of these guys.

Michelle Rowen

#10. My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

Joss Whedon

#11. Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

George Eliot

#12. There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

Joanna Macy

#13. The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

Peter Merry

#14. I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

John Betjeman

#15. From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

Miguel De Unamuno

#16. In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

Randy Weston

#17. You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

Mango Wodzak

#18. The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled

Muhammad Iqbal

#19. Let's assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our attention upon this vision as a strange attractor to carry us through this critical transition?

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#20. The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.

Pablo Picasso

#21. Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

Richard Corliss

#22. I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

Avi Lewis

#23. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy.

Victor Hugo

#24. Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Edwin H. Friedman

#25. Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. 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

#27. When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

Richard Paul Evans

#28. Dear Son,
People with narrow visions who are afraid of the future are unnecessary weights in your life
Love Daddy

Sameh Elsayed

#29. The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

Ayi Kwei Armah

#30. Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

Vince Lombardi

#32. Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.

Nainoa Thompson

#33. Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their visions without taking risks.

Alan Lightman

#34. Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#35. Hope without a strategy doesn't generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won't follow you if they don't believe you can get to where you say you're going.

Seth

#36. How do you change the inevitable? The act of trying to change it could actually cause it to happen.

Travis Luedke

#37. It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow.

James M. Kouzes

#38. To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past.

Josh Bernstein

#39. Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.

Simon Sinek

#40. I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.

Palmer Luckey

#41. Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

Philip Greenspun

#42. In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past

Alan Moore

#43. The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.

Tim Cook

#44. Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the future. He can show you the chapter in which you will. With perfect knowledge of the past and perfect vision of the future, He loves you perfectly in spite of both.

Max Lucado

#45. All utopian visions have this in common: the mental projection of a future time when all will be well, we will be saved, there will be peace and harmony and the end of our problems. There have been many such utopian visions. Some ended in disappointment, others in disaster.

Eckhart Tolle

#46. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

Mary Parker Follett

#47. Technology is fine ... , but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans - you know the answer before I say it - that's not good.

Dennis Miller

#48. I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

Desmond Tutu

#49. In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future

Daniel J. Boorstin

#50. We're also confident that gamers are going to love our vision of the future.

Larry Hryb

#51. Work hard and wait for the fulfillment of future events.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#52. My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

Maria Montessori