The Future Quotes

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.

There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

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

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

‎Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.

No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

I feel very positive about Newark's future, but I know we need a lot of help. I think that starts with the education of our kids and making the streets safer.

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

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

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.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.

We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.

It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

I'm a future legend. And you're the legend killer.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more states to go. We're feeling good about the future.

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.