FUTURE QUOTES IV

quotations about the future

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The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

E. H. CHAPIN

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Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

JOSé SARAMAGO

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The best way to predict your future is to create it.

ROBERT ANTHONY

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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

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We must discipline ourselves to convert dreams into plans, and plans into goals, and goals into those small daily activities that will lead us, one sure step at a time, toward a better future.

JIM ROHN

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Total self-confidence is built through positive expectations. You can build positive expectations by knowing that you have the power within to overcome any obstacle that lies ahead. So many people have a magnetic attraction to the past. They save momentos, clippings, old letters, and trivia. There is nothing wrong with this, but if you want to succeed, your mind must focus on where you are going, not on where you have been. Instead of saving momentos, clippings, old letters, and trivia from the past, it would be more productive to make a scrapbook with pictures of where you want to go and what you want to be in the future.

ROBERT ANTHONY

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The present is the food of the future.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

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Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

GEORGE LEONARD

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We're not responsible for the world we're born into. Only for the world we leave when we die. So we have to accept what's gone before us in the past, and work to change the only thing we can--the future.

WILLIAM SHATNER

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It is today that we must create the world of the future.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not;
Speak then to me.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

ALAN LIGHTMAN

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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

BARACK OBAMA

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We are all engaged in looting the past. (Only the greatest geniuses manage to steal from the future.)

DONALD BARTHELME

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The future? I hate it because I will not be there.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

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The future will soon be a thing of the past.

GEORGE CARLIN

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Whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

RICHARD NIXON

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We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile.... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

WILLIAM GIBSON

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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

BILL WATTERSON

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