Future Quotes - Page 16

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

Despite the continual rise of the knowledge worker over the last 60 years, we haven’t done enough to question “how we’ve always done things” and redefine effectiveness in organizations.

Changes occur and expectations change. Reality brings new possibilities, while destroying some too. It's true: the future is uncertain.

By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!

Books’ll be back,” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that they are possible. But where are the alternatives Where are the dreams that motivate and inspire We long for realistic maps of a world we can be proud to give to our children. Where are the cartographers of human purpose Where are the visions of hopeful futures of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads

Your future is only as bright as your mind is open.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future.

If beheading is the medicine of headache, no man can live; why cant you find the real way out?

You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about,but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy it or repaint it. We want to be the masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history.

Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater

Your dreams of today creates your future.

The future, when it comes, is just like the present. The present is all you have and the opportunity of the present is worth more than the success of the past or the promise of the future.

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

There may be a future for me after all and one day, I may live long enough to give this bracelet to my grandson. Willis knew he had the code as soon as he read the assignment in the blue folder. It’s in his hands now. As Tayla said, it’s the future, we don’t get to know how it ends.

The beauty is that you are always free to choose a better future as well as better past. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life.

I can't change the past, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from it. I can't the future, but that doesn't mean I can't be ready for it.

Entrepreneurship is not a title, it is a mindset, a way of life; it is the future!

The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!

Yesterday has gone, never to return. It is the past and over; learn from its mistakes and look to the future with optimism.

I was nervous and confident at the same time nervous about going out there in front of all of those people with so much at stake and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both knew that without me, none of it would have been possible. Without me, everything would be different. Without me, we wouldn't have been there... lying in that bed in the first place.

My unpleasant past has given me wisdom to build a pleasant Future.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

Director of Ensuring the Future

In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology.

Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.

When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

Utopia's value lies not in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future. Its "practical" use is to overstep the immediate reality to depict a condition whose clear desirability draws us on, like a magnet.

«“I meant, tell me all about this steampunk thing!” Gavin broke in. “How does that concept work out for you people, here in Brazil?”“You don’t know about steampunk?” shouted Xavier, dubiously.“Well, I don’t read many novels! Because I’m kinda fully-booked already! But, obviously, you’re a science fiction writer at a Futurist conference! And I can see that you’re all dressed up like some fancy guy from the past, from the 19th century! So what gives with that? What is all that about?”»

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

You are only happy in life if you forget the bad things and focus on the good things

Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you have just 100 dollars and He is asking you to execute a 400 million dollar project. Have you reached to the point that you consider going further will make no sense? Have you reached the point where you asked God are you sure you are still with me?I just found myself in that Junction now. Turning back ....to realise I have gone too far for Him to forsake me. Moving forward I heard the voice saying ...be still and know that I am your God. Giving up.....Couldn't find it in my dictionary.Moral of the lesson. God cannot give you an assignment that is equal to your pocket. If it suits your pocket it is definitely not from God. Remember God will not take glory where nothing happen.

Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story.

Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one’s Tuesday.

Most of what is now “bitter” for our old nature is going to be useful for our nature

When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.

The choices you make create your future.

Step into your track and begin your steps till you reach the end because life is a personal journey.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all you've got. And if there's more ahead then the present is where you can really shape your future.

Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is also the correct application of knowledge.

Truth be told, if Islam and the Sixth Mass Extinction continue on their path unhindered, chances are worlds will collide with high casualty rates...

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.

If you have nothing planned for the future, you have no need of a future.

The past never went away and it was not designed to do so. It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged.

Naturally all of us don't think we deserve very much. We don't believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent is to expect the worst. Our natural tendency is to be negative and doubtful. It is actually very hard to be positive. It takes faith to be positive and believe that good things are in our future.

Life-ahead is timeless fortune.

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

You can’t prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.

There is no time for regrets. Regrets relate to the past. We have been there. We need to progress to the future.

.. the smell of canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r's and g's in a way I'd never learn. I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before this recurrance that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. That is probably true even if you live to be ninety.