Quotes About Future

But if men and women were not at the mercy of impersonal deities and random chance, they could no longer remain passive in the face of an unknown future. They had no choice but to begin making decisions over a far wider range of circumstances and over far longer periods of time than ever before.

When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game." "Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play...

vision without systems thinking ends up painting lovely pictures of the future with no deep understanding of the forces that must be mastered to move from here to there.

The practice of shared vision involves the skills of unearthing shared "pictures of the future" that foster genuine commitment and enrollment rather than compliance. In mastering this discipline, leaders learn the counterproductiveness of trying to dictate a vision, no matter how heartfelt.

The leader's success in this skill is not just in the development of a vision — the corporate world is littered with concept videos, detailed mockups, and other scenarios of possible futures. Their success is instead shown in how the vision catalyzes action, inspiring the people within a company to charge forward because they want to live in a world where that vision is made a reality.

Especially striking was an upsurge of interest in astrology, fortune telling and all manner of numerical and alphabetical methods of divining the future.34

The great news of Christianity is that your biological family of origin does not determine your future.

You must let God teach you the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.35

if you wanted to see the future you could not go to conventional sources of information.

Steele: Yeah. And not knowing the future. If I could change one thing-this is going to sound stupid-but if I could go back in time and change one thing, I might try to interest some early preliterate people in not using their thumbs when they count. It could have been the standard, and it would have made a whole lot of things easier in the modern era. On the other hand, we have learned a lot from the struggle with the incompatibility of base-ten with powers of two.

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come

You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), who thought that the French Revolution was the dividing line between the past and a 'glorious future', believed there were three outstanding issues in history – the destruction of inequality between nations, the progress of equality within one and the same nation, and the perfecting of mankind.

Maybe the Singularity happened years ago. We just don't want to admit we were left behind.

They're not post-Human. Not yet." "How can you tell?" It was only half a joke. "Because otherwise we wouldn't be able to talk to them at all.

Have a drink," he said. "Helps the future go down easier.

Grey syndrome.

Here in the dusk of the twenty-first century it was so easy to confuse murder with the amputation of a fingertip.

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Pico argued that, unlike all the rest of creation, mankind has been assigned no fixed role by God, but is free to create its own identity and its own future, even aspiring to divinity itself.

My fate is to live among varied and confusing storms. But for you perhaps, if as I hope and wish you will live long after me, there will follow a better age. This sleep of forgetfulness will not last forever. When the darkness has been dispersed, our descendants can come again in the former pure radiance.