Quotes About Future

Making mistakes in centuries and generations past would have consequences that we could overcome. We don't have that luxury anymore.

Futurist Faith Popcorn goes even further. By the year 2010, she predicts, 90 percent of all consumer products will be home-delivered. "They'll put a refrigerator in your garage and bar code your kitchen. Every week they'll restock your favorites, without your ever having to reorder. They'll even pick up your dry cleaning, return your videotapes, whatever you need.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Some day I'll find out what I want to do when I grow up.

Our history is not our destiny.

Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to grasp the person we once were. It might even be possible to pull them up to join us. Now I wonder if our past is always nearby, and our future too, and if we look carefully we can see both. But who wants to look carefully?

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

wired Sofia to find out what to do about him. Though the country was ruled by Czar Boris and his army officers and the future was clear to those with the stomach to see it, foreign policy was ephemeral, and it was hard to know where to put your foot. Russia might be characterized as a wicked beast of a nation, but it was a very

It made her—a bizarre trick—long for a past that was still in the future.

Was it too much to expect a future?

I hope you'll listen to what they have to say and think about how you can make a difference for the future. Because we're all together on this island we call Earth, and we're the only ones who can save it. Thank you!

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

The best way tp predict the future is to invent it.

we predict the future, the best way to predict the future is to invent it

Amazon's founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, once told me that he is often asked, 'What's going to change in the future?' But he is rarely asked, 'What is not going to change?' 'That second question is actually more important than the first,' he said, 'because you can build a strategy around it.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.