Future Quotes - Page 16

Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."

There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.

The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they are known to anybody, or predictable by scientific means. But it asserts that the future is as little changeable as is the past. Everybody knows what we mean when we say that the past cannot be changed. It is in precisely the same sense that the future cannot be changed, according to metaphysical determinism.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.

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

Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.

When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives

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

The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.

My future's about trying to be a better man

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.