Quotes About Future

Our children are not ours because we have given them our genes. They are ours because we have had the audacity to envision them.

You never know what's ahead," Papa would say, his eyes brimming with excitement.

Nor would matters end there; their families and heirs would suffer

The magickian lets go of his or her anticipation of the realization of his or her intention, so that he or she can get out of magick's way, and let his or her Future Reality do the Work.

Here is a big occult secret: Time flows in both directions at once! In other words, we are not only being carried along into the future on an ocean wave of time, but the future is at this very moment flowing toward us! The point where we meet head-on is the present.

The Demiurge always wants people to worry about the future. He doesn't want people to live in the present, in the now.

The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.

When we think about "high Crimes and Misdemeanors," we must ask: Will we survive this presidency, and, if we do, what kind of nation will we have become?

Impeachment should occur when a president's prior misdeeds are so awful in their own right, and so disturbing a signal of future conduct, that allowing the president to remain in office poses a clear danger of grave harm to the constitutional order.

How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

Dreaming of his future, he no longer heard all the things she did not say.

Journalists...chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public deserves to know, and they provide a record for posterity, so that future generations can learn from our mistakes and improve upon our achievements.

Where do we follow the rules, and where do we justify breaking them? Do our pasts determine what we deserve in the future? And is it ever possible to leave your past behind?

Turning your energy toward what's to come, leaning into the light. When you were born, your father wanted you to have my name. Miu: a seedling. He liked that idea, you as our little sprout. But I chose his: Gardner. One who makes things grow. I wanted you to be not only the grown, but the grower. To have power over your own life, turning your energy toward what's to come, leaning into the light.

A million little chances to change the future. They should never have married. He should never have touched her. She should have turned around, stepped out of his office into the hallway, walked away. He sees with utter clarity: none of this was supposed to happen. A mistake.

They would make a pact: to let the past drift away, to stop asking questions, to look forward from them on, never back.

He never completed the sentence, but in his imagined future, he floated away, untethered.

It is not too late, he thinks . . . Not yet the end.

Do our pasts determine what we deserve in the future? And is it ever possible to leave your past behind?

When they had married, he and Marilyn had agreed to forget about the past. They would start a new life together, the two of them, with no looking back.