Quotes About Future

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

We live in a world where to be powerless is a risk The future is not a mystery but a function of what we do today

The future is even more fungible than the past: We can make it up, assert it will be so, and no one can say it won't happen with any surety. Herman Melville, in talking about history, said that the past is the textbook of tyrants, while the future is the bible of the free.

thus animals without symbolic language may lack the ability humans have to deliberately think about the past and imagine the future.

Must we not protect children with all we are? And so the future.

We cannot really change the past, Gart," Larka whispered kindly, "but perhaps we can change the way we see it. You must escape your history, as Morgra could not escape hers. That is the only way to truly conquer her. Otherwise it will go on forever. We can make a different future. If we have true courage.

That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.

The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?' 'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.

Three Principles of Short- and Long-Term Performance 1.?Scrub accounting and business practices down to what is real. 2.?Invest in the future, but not excessively. 3.?Grow while keeping fixed costs constant.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

We shall always be faced with the problem of how to plan for an unknowable future.

Unless a society is expecting its own future choices to be better than its present ones, it will strive to make its present policies and institutions as immutable as possible.

Ordinary Germans" felt utterly powerless, and resigned to feeling so for the foreseeable future. The government would doubtless translate that resignation as passive support, and to some extent they were right. There was certainly no sense that anyone had a practical alternative to offer.

I drive an electric car.

To have hope is to judge the present as inadequate while holding the audacity that an unrealized future will somehow improve upon the present.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

The history of invention is not the history of a necessary future to which we must adapt or die, but rather of failed futures, and of futures firmly fixed in the past.

Employers dislike defined benefit plans, because of the large, variable liability associated with a promise to pay remainder-of-lifetime benefits to pensioners and because of the large, variable pool of assets required to fund the liability. Employees dislike defined benefit plans, because the future stream of pension payments lacks definition and immediacy.

Whether you are working for those closest to you now or working for future generations, both approaches are worthy of admiration. Seneca shows us that there are countless ways we can all contribute to society, whether benefiting one or many. Regardless of our individual skills and inclinations, there's a way open for everyone.

sencillamente se limitaba a vivir uno de esos momentos tan escasos en los que el mañana no importa; en los que solo la fuerza del presente decide nuestra vida.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn't augur well for my longevity