Quotes About Future

Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever ebook lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending library as warehouse as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher and impresario.

For a child a library needs to be round the corner. And if we lose local libraries it is children who will suffer.

The future you expect is a projection of your beliefs about the past. The future will be like the past only if you keep thinking the same thoughts

La mente que hace planes] Y no se da cuenta de que aquí y ahora se encuentra todo cuanto necesita para garantizar un futuro muy diferente del pasado, libre de la continuidad de las viejas ideas y de las creencias enfermizas. No hay ansiedad con respecto al porvenir, pues la confianza presente está a cargo de éste. L

If you want your destiny to be greater than your history, give no credence to history and all credence to possibility.

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.

One did not have to be trained as a pilot to infer that a dead console did not bode well for future voyaging.

Maybe one day, before the universe died, Unkar Plutt would take a bath.

Left to their own devices, most organizations tend toward a sort of sociological conservatism that will increasingly forgo engagement with their context in favor of preserving what they see as their repository of inherited ideas. In other words, they turn away from missional engagement and toward an increasingly traditionalist, sentimental interpretation of reality. Instead of looking forward to a possible future of which they are called to be a part, they look back to an idealized past.

When we look to the past ... what we are always looking for is whatever is better than we are ... The future cannot teach us because we are the ones who must imagine it.

Cashier: Yes, can I help you? Tee-Ay: Yeah, I need a rattle. Cashier: Aisle eight. Tee-Ay: I'm looking for the kind that'll give a fatherless black baby a future, you got any of those? Cashier: Girl, if we sold those, do you think I'd be workin' here?

Most people have learned how to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed in for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time to be judged on their own.

Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their visions without taking risks.

if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future

Philosophers have argued without a trend toward order; time would lack meaning. The future would be indistinguishable from the past. Sequences of events would be just so many random scenes from a thousand novels. History would be indistinct, like the mist slowly gathered by treetops in evening.

Indeed, what sense is there in continuing the present when one has seen the future?

Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past while effect in the future, but future and past are entwined.

Don't we owe that young woman, and all of our children, a world in which their contemplative lives are valued and supported? Don't we owe it to ourselves?

The future is beckoning. She makes up her mind. Without finishing her packing, she rushes out of her house, this point of her life, rushes straight to the future.

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

Such a small thing to cast such a long & uneasy shadow over the future. For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain: it just won't be the same.

As with most of the future worlds in the science fiction, you are not talking about the future. You are talking about the present. You are using the future as a way of giving a bit of room to move.