Future Quotes - Page 18

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking of the next stage of our social evolution.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.

When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future, — a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.

Our Futures are Formed by the Thoughts we Hold Most Often.

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

No thought about the past or future can pull you away from your present peace and joy. The universe exists in this present moment. No desire can pull you away from this present peace, not even the desire to become a Buddha or the desire to save all beings. Know that to become a Buddha and to save all beings can only be realized on the foundation of the pure peace of the present moment.