Future Quotes

I die,” I say with as much conviction as I can muster. “What happens to me then?” Willis says. “If you don’t live, I never have a chance to be born, to live, to make a difference. You’re throwing my life away and I have no say in it.” “What if the world is a better place without me in it?” “My grandmother made a huge difference to the lives of so many people

~ If I Wake

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

~ George Friedman

That still did not invalidate their purity in his eyes, so long as they continued to live the way they lived: sitting on the floor, eating with their fingers, cooking and sleeping first in one room, then in another, or in the vast patio with its fountains, or on the roof, leading the existence of nomads inside the beautiful shell which was the house. If he had felt that they were capable of discarding their utter preoccupation with the present, in order to consider the time not yet arrived, he would straightway have lost interest in them and condemned them as corrupt.

~ Paul Bowles

If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to.

~ Owen Jones

My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Don’t give up on trying everyday, those who gave up yesterday are living today regretting that they never tried again and again.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Forget the Past. Doubt the Future. Love the Present.

~ Broken

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

~ Craig Groeschel

Plans are fragile things, and life often dashes expectations to the ground.

~ Kriea/Darth Traya

To rid oneself of the past is to forgo the future...

~ Nanette L. Avery

We think a lot of things but can not take the right steps at the right time. And this is why the next time we're gonna regret.

~ Sudeb Gharami

Aim for the moon, but in your way there don't forget to dance with the stars and shine as bright as the sun.

~ Tilicia Haridat

One cannot have a future if he does not serve God, the one and only God

~ Sunday Adelaja

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

~ Alice Hoffman

If you see a piece of paper on the floor, don't ignore it, pick it up, write down your dream, and carry it everywhere you go . . .

~ Manuel Corazzari

As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.

~ Dexter Palmer

History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet.

~ Natasha Tsakos

Some people view Gene as a man with a wild futuristic utopian fantasy, but that’s too simple. Star Trek did not promise that people would magically become inherently “better,” but that they would progress, always reaching for their highest potential and noblest goals, even if it took centuries of taking two steps forward and one step back. Ideally, humankind would be guided in its quest by reason and justice. The ultimate futility of armed conflict, terrorism, dictatorial rule, prejudice, disregard for the environment, and exercising power for its own sake was demonstrated time and again

~ Nichelle Nichols

We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort and our standards will keep rising. We want to feel, we want to experience, we want to connect, we want intelligence, and we want to play; Ladies and Gentlemen: A new theatre is on its way.

~ Natasha Tsakos

Always remember that your future is determined by what you do today, not tomorrow.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

When leaders wonder what they can do to position their societies for the industries of the future, they need to open up and resist control-freak tendencies. The 21st century is a terrible time to be a control freak; future grown depends on empowering people.

~ Alec J. Ross

You haven't met your Way yet. It hasn't so much as kissed your hand! You haven't even at the door of the hall where your Way dances. But look here, look see, I've got them, I've caught them up just for you, a big bouquet of anywhere you want to go. Just pick a bloom, my girl, hold it to your pretty nose.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Are we living in a psychopathic, doggy-dog system? -What about a new language - a new ethics?

~ #Name?

Never forget,' says Sugar Daddy, 'we are a nation built on sugar. It is our history and it is the source of our prosperity, now and in the future.'This is true. Our entire nation sits on reclaimed land made from sugar. Ours is an island that rose out of the sea, built on a hard core of toffee.

~ Julie Koh

As we begin to internalize the technological kingdoms we have built, as we progressively become more superhuman, what will differentiate us from machinery?

~ Natasha Tsakos

There's always room for Jell-O

~ David Byrne

How will the performer-audience interaction change, now that we are so used to participating in the lives of strangers?

~ Natasha Tsakos

Our vocabulary may become a real time algorithmic word bank. Could you imagine having a conversation like that? Where the meaning of words constantly adapts?

~ Natasha Tsakos

Once we’ve become Gods, And Superheroes, and Spidermen(ed) through the web of potential, what will be next?

~ Natasha Tsakos

She pulls me further down. More trapped souls reach out to us, dressed in clothes from decades past. The girl ignores them as we descend along the timeline – decade by decade – towards the birth of the island.

~ Julie Koh

Understanding and accepting the decisions you have made, good or bad, will make you bolder. Reflection helps punctuate your past and indent your future.

~ Farshad Asl

Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first step; it is the first action; it is the first move before any move, it is the first of everything!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your PAST is not your FUTURE. It's just a reference to your future. Your Future is yet to be explored so don't replay your past especially the bad experiences in your anticipated future.

~ Oscar Bimpong

The only way to predict the future is to create it. You don't let it happen. You make it happen. How? Stop regretting the past and start learning from it. Let go of guilt by leaning into God's grace. Quit beating yourself up and let the Spirit of God heal your heart. You cannot divorce yourself from the past. You are married to it forever. But God wants to reconcile your past by redeeming it. God is in the recycling business, He makes recycled goods out of wasted lives.

~ Mark Batterson

On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, 'The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.' Dark, she seems to be saying, as in inscrutable, not as in terrible. We often mistake the one for the other. Or we transform the future's unknowability into something certain, the fulfillment of all our dread, the place beyond which there is no way forward. Be again and again, far stranger things happen than the end of the world.

~ Rebecca Solnit

We worry too much about the future. And fail to enjoy the moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have a past, okay? And you really don't want to get involved with it.''Everybody's got a past,' he said. 'That doesn't mean you can't have a future.

~ Meredith Russo

How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that's our sign to keep going

~ Rachel Van Dyken

The forces are there, we cannot will them away. All we can do is learn to live with them. And we cannot learn this unless we are willing to tell the truth about ourselves, and the truth about us is always at variance with what we wish to be.

~ Unknown

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

~ Hyacil Han