Top 100 The Future Is Quotes
#1. The future is uncertain ... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.
Ilya Prigogine
#2. I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.
Ray Dalio
#3. The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.
George Roche III
#4. The definition of the future is today
ABC
#6. The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams
#7. The past and the present, might we say, go like this. The future is a maybe. Yet we look back on the darkness that obscures the path that brought us fair, we only come up with another indefinite maybe. The only thing we perceive with any clarity is the present moment, and even that just passes by.
Haruki Murakami
#8. Protecting the future is more important than righting the wrongs of the past.
Sarah Fine
#9. While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.
Barack Obama
#10. The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.
Tyra Banks
#12. Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
Byron Katie
#13. When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.
Anonymous
#14. Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.
Edward R. Murrow
#15. The wave of the future is on the local level. Don't waste your heart and mind trying to pull down what is already destroying itself. But come into where you're almost below the radar and reorganize life. We want communities where we live and work and fight for the future.
Joanna Macy
#16. The future is forever a projection of the present.
Kobo Abe
#18. It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
Alan Rickman
#19. The past cannot be changed, but the future is yours. Don't waste it trying to change the unchangeable.
Cristiane Serruya
#20. As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.
Katherine Harris
#22. It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
Victor Hugo
#23. If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
Elon Musk
#24. Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
Laozi
#25. What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#27. The past has come apart
events are vagueing
the future is inexploitable
Mina Loy
#28. The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.
John Schaar
#29. Sometimes the future is overrated.
Kim Holden
#30. 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
#31. If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.
Alan Alda
#32. When the time is yours, the future is waiting, The person you become, and the people you're creating.
Jeff Hardy
#33. The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.
Nam June Paik
#34. I was thinking; it's very peaceful, here with you. It's nice to just lie here and know that the future is sort of taken care of." "Henry?
Audrey Niffenegger
#35. The past is memory, the future is imagination. Only the present is time. The past is not, it has already gone. The future is not; it has not come yet. Only the present is. To
Osho
#36. The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions.
Debasish Mridha
#37. The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.
George Will
#38. Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond ... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.
John Browne, Baron Browne Of Madingley
#39. The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Tim Berners-Lee
#40. Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.
Steven Pressfield
#41. The future is destined only for tomorrow's work and today's thoughts.
David Boreanaz
#42. Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.
Epicurus
#43. The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber
#44. Amazon isn't happening to the book business," he likes to say to authors and journalists. "The future is happening to the book business.")
Brad Stone
#45. Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other
than just getting older.
Audrey Niffenegger
#46. The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#47. Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.
Natalie Massenet
#48. The future is not about a single mind that sees or predicts - it is about the many.
Daniel Egger
#49. For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
Thor Heyerdahl
#50. The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.
Jeanette Winterson
#51. I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.
Jessa Crispin
#52. Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
Ian Hacking
#54. The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.
Rajneesh
#56. Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.
Bill Bryson
#57. The future is always a bit wobbly. Any little thing, like the fall of a snowflake or the dropping of the wrong kind of spoon, can send it spinning off along a new path. Or perhaps not.
Terry Pratchett
#58. Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday.
Karen Kingsbury
#59. The future is unknown. Prophecy contaminates it with the past, which is why liberated people do not bother with fortunetelling or astrology, and why the happy traveler wanders and does not let himself be the slave of maps, guidebooks, and schedules, using them but not being used by them.
Alan W. Watts
#60. I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
John Green
#61. The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.
Steve Kerr
#62. The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card
#63. I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.
Ken Robinson
#65. The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
Kevin Kelly
#66. The future is a thing to be shaped," Scytale said. "Hold that thought, Princess.
Frank Herbert
#67. The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
Freeman Dyson
#68. But always remember, I am watching your every move and will be with all of you until the end of all things. Do not let your heart be troubled with the turmoil of the future. Be sure of one thing: the future is already written in the hidden stones of the hearts of those who said 'yes.
J.D. Netto
#69. The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J.K. Rowling
#70. Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.
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Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox
#71. The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.
Bruce Sterling
#72. Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne W. Dyer
#73. The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.
Andrzej Stasiuk
#74. The future is in the hands of those who explore ... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#76. I don't mean religious faith. I mean faith in our own abilities. We have to do the best we can with the talents we have, Geordie. The future is too unpredictable for anxiety.
James Runcie
#77. The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds.
Lewis Thomas
#78. I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead ... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is ... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#79. The future is travelling furiously toward you at incredible speed and will beat you to your destination to surprise you by its resemblance to what you have already seen.
Andrew Durbin
#80. To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
John Dewey
#81. Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.
Gary Hamel
#82. I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
Salar Kamangar
#83. Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... the future is roses! Roses!
Thomas Dolby
#84. The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
Robert Anton Wilson
#85. It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.
Prince Philip
#86. According to the Buddha, life is available only in the here and now, the present moment. He said, "The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment." If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#87. 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
#88. Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
Nhat Hanh
#90. The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.
Ann Demeulemeester
#91. The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
David Deutsch
#92. If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development.
Peter Drucker
#93. Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real
the here-and-now. Seize the day.
Saul Bellow
#94. The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.
Eugene Kennedy
#95. The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby
#96. The future is a strange monster. The less there is of it, the more it frightens.
James Lovegrove
#97. If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
Margaret Mead
#98. One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#99. You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes
Bonnie Greer
