Future Quotes - Page 30

We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

Your future is co-created out of what you do today. Do you act from fear or faith? You get to choose.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.

I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.

When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to predict its future prospects. He has to wait and see. For instance, the hairy mammoth seems to have been an admirable animal, intelligent and well-accoutered. Now that it is extinct, we try to understand why it failed. I doubt that any biologist thinks he could have predicted that failure. Fitness and survival are by nature estimates of past performance.

The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

The future belongs to crowds.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and commerce routine.

I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.

The future will be a better tomorrow.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.