Future Quotes
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We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
Marina Abramovic
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I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.
Douglas Coupland
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Kiwis must not fall behind the standards of other countries. We pride ourselves on our quality of life. Thus we must pave the road in the right way for the future generations.
Kylie Bax
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
Anna Deavere Smith
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We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God....His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.
Oswald Chambers
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With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
Marianne Williamson
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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
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In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
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You're a smart person. You're going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that's going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.
Caroline Ghosn
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The Wonderful pistachios campaign is a great example - I don't involve myself with a project I don't feel passionate about. I could talk your ear off about internal statistics for WWE and what we have planned for the future. Why do I know that stuff? Because I like to do all that stuff.
John Cena
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I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.
Melissa Manchester
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The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.
Douglas Coupland
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The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.
Marianne Williamson
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We need to stop defining Boeing's future based on a single program or two programs, and we have been doing that with the fighter story. It doesn't mean it was wrong or right; I just don't think it represents the great diversity of the Boeing Defense portfolio.
Leanne Caret
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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
Alexander Payne
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I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.
Leo Varadkar
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I have learned that there's a little bit of a danger in stressing ourselves out and living in the future - worry affects how we are today.
Christen Press
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There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.
Gautama Buddha
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But nothing will ever change if we keep pretend. People 'live out loud', as you say, not merely for themselves but for a more honest future.
Alessandro Aleotti
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The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
Adeline Yen Mah
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
Augusten Burroughs
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Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve Jobs
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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.
C. S. Lewis