Quotes About Future

It will render you more likely to abuse cocaine and alcohol, as you live for the present in a world full of uncertain futures.

Memory is not a description of the objective past. Memory is a tool. Memory is the past's guide to the future. If you remember that something bad happened, and you can figure out why, then you can try to avoid that bad thing happening again.

communications to your "almost" new client come from a position of strength—meaning that, as far as you're concerned, the deal is already closed and the communication you're sending is from the perspective of building a long-term relationship and doing more business in the future. Otherwise, you'll come off as being desperate, and it will end up having the reverse effect.

In truth, there was more than one thing behind it, but at the heart of the transformation was a powerful visualization technique that I taught the Strattonites called future pacing.

that actually future pace it—forcing them to experience the reality of being in even greater pain at some point down the road if they don't take action now to resolve it. This will ensure that your prospect not only understands the ramifications of not taking action to resolve their pain, but also feels those ramifications in their gut.

El pasado inmediato condiciona el necesario futuro.

Today's philosophy questions are tomorrow's precision science experiments.

La decadencia es ese tobogán que gobiernan los jóvenes: a partir de ahora las cosas son así, abuelo. Y la vejez consiste precisamente en no poder elegir y en tener que asimilarte por la fuerza a esa manga de ignorantes modernos que te ponen un revólver de futuro en la nuca. Se acabó lo que se daba. Te gusta o te vas, te adaptás o morís.

The future without days. Without days of it? in it? I try to—just for a second—feel that shape.

The flame of sun which will come out just now for a blinding minute into your eyes is saving nothing, no one, take your communion, your blood is full of barren fields, they are the future in you you should learn to feel and love: there will be no more: no more: not enough to go around: no more around: no more: love that.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

The confused medley of meditations on art and literature in which he had indulged since his isolation, as a dam to bar the current of old memories, had been rudely swept away, and the onrushing, irresistible wave crashed into the present and future, submerging everything beneath the blanket of the past, filling his mind with an immensity of sorrow, on whose surface floated, like futile wreckage, absurd trifles and dull episodes of his life.

Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below, defrays it after death; happiness is only lent, and must be repaid; its very phantoms are like duties paid in advance on a future succession of sorrows.

Chez les uns, c'est un retour aux âge consommés, aux civilisations disparues, aux temps morts ; Chez les autres, c'est un élancement vers le fantastique et vers le rêve, c'est une vision plus ou moins intense d'un temps à éclore dont l'image reproduit, sans qu'il le sache, par un effet d'atavisme, celle des époques révolues.

Nuestro proyecto tiene una meta que sobrepasa la historia.

Lo terrible es la esperanza

A fé na cultura moderna era triste: era saber que amanhã seria essencialmente igual a hoje; que o progresso consistia somente em avançar, por todos os "sempres", sobre um caminho idêntico ao que já estava sob nossos pés. Um caminho assim está mais para uma prisão que, elástica, se alonga sem nos libertar.

No es el ayer, el pretérito, el haber tradicional, lo decisivo para que una nación exista. Este error nace, como ya he indicado, de buscar en la familia, en la comunidad nativa, previa, ancestral, en el pasado, en suma, el origen del Estado. Las naciones se forman y viven de tenr un programa para mañana.

Sure I tampered with my body chemistry -- and I emerged more than human! It's only a matter of time before an entire race of people are raised on steroids, and who knows what they'll be able to accomplish? Live to 150 years old, remain sexually potent into your nineties, interbreed with dolphins and whales, there's literally no limit to what steroids can do for a person. Do you know what it means to feel like God?

Y ricuerde cada cual lo que cada cual sufrió, que lo que es, amigo, yo, hago ansí la cuenta mía: ya lo pasado pasó; mañana será otro día.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

I am not writing for this generation but for those yet to come. If this one could read what I have written, it would burn my books, my whole life's work. But the generation that deciphers these characters will be a learned generation; it will understand me and say: "Not everyone slept during the night of our forefathers!