Charles J. Givens Quotes

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Charles J. Givens

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• We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Future
  • Community
  • Space

• If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Past
  • Giving

• When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Future
  • Young
  • Group

• I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Think
  • Future
  • Enthusiasm

• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Past

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Past
  • Trouble
  • Emotions

• I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Past
  • Like
  • Losers

• For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Future
  • Political

• I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Past
  • Being
  • Falling

• In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Game
  • Past
  • Me

• Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Future
  • Me

• During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Violence
  • Childhood

• What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Future
  • Problem

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Family
  • Success

• If it had pleased them the legislators to order that this wealth, after having been possessed by fathers during their life, should return to the republic after their death, you would have no reason to complain of it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • Death

• I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Men
  • Lying
  • Scene

• Things are not as they should be. Because He's not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • Rest
  • Should
  • Finished

• The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like I've rediscovered my childhood innocence. I love it because nothing has changed.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • World
  • House
  • Childhood

• To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

  

  Charles J. Givens
  • Future
  • Past
  • Design