What Is Future Quotes

#1. Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

Edward De Bono

#2. Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot.

Louis L'Amour

#3. Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde

#4. Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.

Elisabeth Elliot

#5. History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

Miguel De Cervantes

#6. What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

Theo De Raadt

#7. I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED WHEN I AM RETIRED - BUT UNTIL THEN IT IS ALL ABOUT FOCUS.

Lionel Messi

#8. It is hard sometimes to look into the future, you never know what twist and turn the school of life is going to take.

Susan Lucci

#9. What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo

#10. Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

Assata Shakur

#11. It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight

Carlos E. Asay

#12. I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Yuri Milner

#13. The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.

Margaret Fuller

#14. What is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.

John Stuart Mill

#15. The future isn't what is used to be.

Yogi Berra

#16. I don't believe in predestined fate. The future is what we choose to create.

Jim Davidson

#17. Most of what is now "bitter" for our old nature is going to be useful for our nature

Sunday Adelaja

#18. I'm working on a film called 'Bonnie.' Bonnie means water. It's in English, and it's dealing with a future world in a megacity - which is what the U.N. says we're going to be - but in this megacity, a city that runs out of water.

Shekhar Kapur

#19. When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

L.M. Montgomery

#20. If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the terrorist attacks. Not to rely on what you and I are putting in chat messages on Google or Apple.

John Kiriakou

#21. Loving you is and will always be my greatest honor. You've done the impossible; you've opened me,
Gabriella. And despite what the future may hold for us, I will carry that with me forever. My heart will
always be yours, in life and in death.

S.L. Jennings

#22. Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.

Larry Doby

#23. Your dad's story is over. In six months or a year, this will be done for him. He won't be dealing with the consequences of what you choose to do now. You will. So you make this decision based on what you need.

Jason Schmidt

#24. You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

Wangari Maathai

#25. But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?

Brit Marling

#26. Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.

Julian Simon

#27. Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

Robert M. Pirsig

#28. Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?

Rawi Hage

#29. I will never give up on what I love. I will never back down. I will never let go of anything that is important to me. I will hold my course steady and my God will help me see it through. This is my promise, my anthem and my path. This is my future and I own it.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

Paul Ryan

#31. What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

N. T. Wright

#32. There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Tom Turner

#33. Programmes like the BES are what make the difference between a good university & one that is truly outstanding. I believe this programme will be invaluable for the future sustainability of Singapore and the region; perhaps even the world, if others follow our lead.

Geh Min

#34. What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

Jeremy Rifkin

#35. I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don't let what some assholes say or do, direct you. In this life, it only matters what you do with it.

Nicole Reed

#36. An "EX" is called an "ex" because it's an EXample of what you shouldn't have again in the future.

Unknown

#37. The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.

Robert Krulwich

#38. The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

Seth Godin

#39. Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.

Anita Roddick

#40. All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.

Bill Crawford

#41. No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to Hope, to face the future with courage.

Daisaku Ikeda

#42. The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.

Melody Carstairs

#43. We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.

M. Russell Ballard

#44. Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

Rachel Miner

#45. Indeed, life is full of tests. You don't know what they are, so you must treat everything in life with the same care you would bring to a test on which your future rests. I realize that the most important test of all, in my quest, and in every bird's quest, is the test to be the master of fate.

Nancy Yi Fan

#46. I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this Party appeals to the centre ground of British politics.

Nicky Morgan

#47. I believe I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. I know who and what holds the future. I trust that beyond this space and time, all is well, and all will be well.

Oprah Winfrey

#48. One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer.

R.J. Gonzales

#49. That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour of drama. You don't need convoluted plot lines. You don't need long-lost brothers. You don't need it's set on the future; it's set on the moon.

Ricky Gervais

#50. 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

#51. It's hard to be happy in the now when you can't stop worrying about the future. What I want is to trust that everything will work out. To believe with all my heart that I'll end up where I belong.

Lisa Schroeder

#52. Sometimes it is more comfortable to live in the past. It is where you have already been, what you already know. It is because the future is unknown that it scares us. But the future is here, and you cannot stop it. Embrace it because one day this future will be the past you may want to revisit.

Matthew A. DeBettencourt

#53. You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

Bob Kahn

#54. The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

Joseph Brodsky

#55. Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Marianne Curley

#56. 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

#57. At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

Lewis Thomas

#58. Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.

Natalie Goldberg

#59. The past cannot change what is to come. The work that you do each and every day is the only true way to improve and prepare yourself for what is to come. You cannot change the past, but you can influence the future by what you do today. -

John Wooden

#60. What!' you say, 'will not all the sufferings of Israel through all these centuries suffice? Is there a yet future baptism of fire, through which they must pass?' Yes, this is clear.

Dalton Lifsey

#61. There's no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

Daisaku Ikeda

#62. People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Willie Stargell

#63. I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.

Paul Bremer

#64. There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#65. Start leaving what you want to leave. Your future is waiting.

Danielle LaPorte

#66. Only art can make the future love you, and that is what art is about: attraction at a distance, seduction from the past, inveiglement from beyond the grave. Art is a plea to love me when I'm gone. And yet, I thought to myself, who could love what I do? Who could possibly love me for this?

Supervert

#67. What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Sylvia Plath

#68. Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

John Dryden

#69. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#70. Most long-range forecasts of what is technically feasible in future time periods dramatically underestimate the power of future developments because they are based on what I call the "intuitive linear" view of history rather than the "historical exponential" view.

Ray Kurzweil

#71. Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.

David Starr Jordan

#72. I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.

Jeb Bush

#73. It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.

Debra Kaye

#74. And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

Lynn Redgrave

#75. It just goes to show you that knowing things is highly insufficient--having the guts to back up what you know is what changes the course of a human being's future. (call, Nov. 10, 2014)

Laura Schlessinger

#76. 'It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you...At the end of your life, all you have is what you know.'

Vicki Pettersson

#77. I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

Steven Yeun

#78. Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.

Brian Jacques

#79. Always remember," said Petra, "a friend is someone who understands your past, believes in you future, and accepts you just the way you are."...

And a friend stands by you, Suzanne thought to herself,...No matter what it cost her.

Laura Childs

#80. prepared for the future as you could be. An odd feature of what happened is that your System 1 treated the mere conjunction of

Daniel Kahneman

#81. 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

#82. since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present.

Erich Fromm

#83. You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.
It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.

Stefan Molyneux

#84. No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#85. What if trying to avoid the future is what triggers it all?

David Mitchell

#86. The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.

Dennis Gabor

#87. It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

Carlton Cuse

#88. Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope ... hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.

Lewis B. Smedes

#89. One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#90. The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

S. N. Goenka

#91. The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.

Seth Godin

#92. The work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.

N. T. Wright

#93. Sometimes people ask me why am I so excited about what I do. My reply mostly is, You see one celebrity and get excited. I see several hundred thousand future celebrities, change makers, and world movers, everyday.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#94. but the older he got, the better he understood; forgiveness was an act done after the fact - a piece of the bad deeds future - and if you point the people's eyes to the future they might not see what is being done to hurt them in the present.

Yaa Gyasi

#95. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Oscar Wilde

#96. Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

Richard Lugar

#97. The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be reliably predicted. Consciousness interacts with vast archetypal fields of possibility and probability. What actually happens is the result of the collision of both forces.

Steven Forrest

#98. Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called "foresight". It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. Most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.

Jonathan Auxier

#99. I will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future.

Roshani Chokshi

#100. We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment

Chanakya