Future Quotes - Page 28

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

Don't look back! For a bright future is ahead of you.

Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.

The major key to your better future is you.

It's not what happens, it's what you do that determines your future.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places--and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This means that for us, unlike the situation for humble microorganisms, deep-space travel is probably a stark impossibility.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.

Determine your future now by taking hold of every opportunity.

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.