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Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think - the pillars crumbled, you say? And the sea empty, and the canals dry, and the maidens dead, and the flowers withered?" The Martian was silent, but then he looked ahead. "But there they are. I see them. Isn't that enough for me? They wait for me now, no matter what you say.
— Ray Bradbury
Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.
— Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population - about 25 million would be plenty - of pastoralists and prospectors (prospecting for truth), gathering once a year in the ruins of ancient, mysterious cities for great ceremonies of music, art, dance, poetry, joy, faith and renewal. That's my dream of the American future. Like most such dreams, it will probably come true. That is why I'm still an optimist.
— Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, The Indiscreet Letter
I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared) will muddle through to a freer, more open, less crowded, green and spacious agrarian society. (Maybe; of course it may be only a repeat of the middle ages.)
— Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
The future offers everything. Reach out and take whatever you want.
— Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
In his mind, Inman likened the swirling paths of vulture flight to the coffee grounds seeking pattern in his cup. Anyone could be oracle for the random ways things fall against each other. It was simple enough to tell fortunes if a man dedicated himself to the idea that the future will inevitably be worse than the past and that time is a path leading nowhere but a place of deep and persistent threat. The way Inman saw it, if a thing like Fredericksburg was to be used as a marker of current position, then many years hence, at the rate we're going, we'll be eating one another raw.
— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.
— P.W. Cross, The Idea Miners: The Lost Lake Dig
...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.
— Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
Is it a fact – or have I dreamt it – that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
— Roy Amara
We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us
— J.G. Ballard
You're about to enter the future gate.Come in now, or later will be too late.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs may be in the hands of the fin-de-siecle gilded youths we see about us during the Christmas holidays. Such foppery, such luxury, such insolence,was surely never practiced by the scented, overbearing patricians of the Palatine, even in Rome's most decadent epoch. In all the wild orgy of wastefulness and luxury with which the nineteenth century reaches its close, the gilded youth has been surely the worst symptom.
— Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
Serena has spent her life fighting fiction the way good soldiers fight—intent on detecting its presence, harassing it, suppressing it—but I have to find a way to show her she’s mistaken her enemy, to explain to her that whoever suppresses fiction destroys life, and that everything disappears with it, all love, all desire. If the past is an invention, it’s not such a big deal. After all, the future’s an invention, and no one finds that hard to accept.
— Enrique de Hériz, Lies
His future now was all horizon
— Mário de Sá-Carneiro
General..behold the future of weaponry.""What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?""It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!""It's..what?
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
To be ignorant of the future is a condition of mortal existence, with which one can make terms. To be ignorant of the present, where it concerns the life of those one loves, is an additional burden almost beyond endurance.
— Frances J. Woodward, Portrait of Jane:  A Life of Lady Franklin
In the future, eyeglasses see all directions simultaneously.To be able to use hemiscope, eyes and brain need to practice.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Find the Key ! Find the Key ! If you want to open the Doors of Heaven ! Without which, you can at best, look from outside, like the pauper looking in through the window at your food when hungry. Find the Key !
— AainaA-Ridtz
Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future.Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
— Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
I'm working on the future, instead of being caught up in where I am today. - Roy Daniels
— Drew  Hayes, Super Powereds: Year 4
Think of the future, she whispers. Jumbled images in primary colours. White and red swastika flags waving in the wind; gleaming rockets flying into the air; skyscrapers rise above the Danube, the Thames, the Volga and the Rhine, blond children play under a bright African sun, their uniforms ironed to perfection by their servant-slaves nearby, modern women work at factories assembling Volkswagens, in the mountains in a wood cabin Maria and Erich and their three children go on a skiing holiday, laughing, holding hands…
— Lavie Tidhar, The Violent Century
Pessimism is a very easy way out when you’re considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today and what has happened just since you were born, you can’t help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems and illnesses of one sort or another. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically from the day when the first amoeba crawled out of the slime and made its adventure on land. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world.
— Robertson Davies
Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me often—in the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new unreliability in my vision. Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.
— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don’t have to ask yourself any of the big questions. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Am I doing enough? In the hood you can be a forty-year-old man living in your mom’s house asking people for money and it’s not looked down on. You never feel like a failure in the hood, because someone’s always worse off than you, and you don’t feel like you need to do more, because the biggest success isn’t that much higher than you, either. It allows you to exist in a state of suspended animation.
— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Amazing what more we can see looking back. But God didn't give us eyes in the back of our heads. Our eyes, like our feet, face forward, toward the future.
— Regina Scott, Mail-Order Marriage Promise
Do something today that your future self will thank you for.
— Anonymous
Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.
— Steven Magee
Ask yourself:Am I living my past, present or future?
— Avina Celeste
Truth as a time coordinate; truth lives in the past, the future is uncertain.Truth as a scale coordinate; truth lives in the macro world, the micro world is uncertain.Truth lives in the macro past and uncertainty lives in the micro future.
— R.A.Delmonico
When we live in the past, there is no future.
— Anthony T. Hincks
The truly important people in our lives are always in our future.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
I recounted my adventures, just as I recount them to you now. I told him about Bombay, which glowed in the night like a lamp. I told him about Bangalore, about the beaches of Goa, of Pune, where elaborate retirement homes and ashrams ringed India’s ferociously competitive colleges, and liberals went to experience transcendence without getting their feet dirty. I told him of places you could expand your mind and still be within walking distance of the nearest McDonalds.
— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Fast can be good. Except when moving so fast and getting so far ahead of ourselves we no longer can recognize our mode of transportation or the wall we’ve hit prior to creating it.
— Todd Crawshaw, Exploits of the Satyr
Don't worry about your future in the past,Otherwise the sense of enjoyment won't last.By Vinay Chawla
— Poignant Painters, Whistling Silence
People who are stuck in the past, miss out on the beauty of the Present and the possibility of the future!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you.
— Nick Vujicic, Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action
We, of all the beings that we know of, can think. We can eat, write, build, save. We can predict, estimate, and count. We can preserve food for lifetimes, and in times of crisis, we can find ways to ensure our survival. With each passing generation, our sphere of control of our existence is larger. What if the earth is hit by an asteroid or there is no way to stop global warming? We look to colonize other planets. The fate of our species, in a few years, will not be tied to the fate of the earth. Our home planet must be cared for ... but as we go interplanetary and then interstellar, our control on our lives and the evolution of our species grows. As far as we know, we are the only species that has a say in the development of its future.
— Tarun Betala, The Things We Don't Know:  How mankind found answers to some of life's most pressing questions.
Déjà vu is simply remembrance of the future.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
When you need help but refuse to ask for it, you are rejecting yourself. You're not even giving yourself a chance. You're not even giving anyone else a chance to help you. You started at a "No" and now you're stuck at a "No". Don't you want to push forward as much as you can? Don't you want to push forward to a better future and a better you? You can get so much further just by learning to ask for help when you need it. You can get so much further by learning to cooperate with others for your mutual interests. There is absolutely nothing wrong with asking for help. Other people have the choice whether or not they will help you. At least give them that choice.
— Akiroq Brost
Man wants to make certain about the future,about tommorow--which cannot be done. Let it sink as deeply in your heart as possible, it cannot be done. Don't waste your present moment trying to make the future certain. The future is uncertainity that is the very quality of the future.One can do only one thing: Be alert and wait.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
Electronic consciousness and the transhuman revolution renders infinite possibilities for the future as man merges with machines. This is an exhilarating time to be alive!
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Looking at death can be life-affirming. It doesn’t need to mire us in thoughts of uselessness, nihilism, self-recrimination, and indifference to the future. Just a reminder that our days are numbered invites us to consider our blessings, strengthen our resolve to carry on, and escalate our compassion for all creatures, great and small.
— Brent Green, Questions of the Spirit: The Quest for Understanding at a Time of Loss
There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest
For A Glorious Future: Leave Your Past Behind!
— Harsh Agrawal, Affiliate Marketing For Dummies by ShoutMeLoud: Shortcut to unexplored digital monetization technique.
This is often the way one moves into the future. For what you begin to see, there is no ready language. If you were to remain silent, listen, perhaps in response you might be able to move in a new way. Glide into it slowly, aware of every slight difference, skin and cells intelligent, reading. But trained as you are in certain regimens, chances are you proceed directly according to the old patterns, trying again what was tried before.
— Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
Future is awesome. All we have to do now is to build it.
— Radovan Kavický
I just predicted the future, Small talk = Short Term Relationships.
— Deyth Banger, Deep Legend
Numbers and more numbers...the future of mankind has come down to decimals. I guess you will figure that out, eventually.
— Anthony T. Hincks
I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Let us doom and gloom not creep into our day and lust for life not wither away. With the future as brother-in-arms, steps in the unknown should not frighten. ("Steps in the unknown" )
— Erik Pevernagie
You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Henri said our names were fitting because we were destined to be together in our old age, like our great-great-aunts. Two gray old ladies in the bodies of teenage girls. Someday we’d live in a big house with faded curtains, a dozen or so cats, and a handful of our marbles long ago lost. On all accounts—our destiny, her clairvoyance, and our soon-to-be missing marbles—I believed her.
— Jessica  Taylor, A Map for Wrecked Girls
I'm immortal. You consider the future because one day you'll die. I don't have that uncertainty." - Kiaran
— Elizabeth May, The Falconer
Let God direct your Today, He knows what is coming in your Tomorrow.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
You’re here. You’re real. Embrace that person you were, and make sure you have reason to like the person you’re becoming. The past you can’t change. The future is what matters.
— David  Walton, Supersymmetry
The regrets are like yesterday: they announce only the future. (Les regrets sont comme hier: - Ils n'annoncent que le futur)
— Charles de Leusse
What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when...
— Anne Corlett, The Space Between the Stars
My life doesn't bore me, because I know its worth. So when I let you be part of it, ensure you add value and not attempt to devalue it; or else you can never be part of my future.
— Gift Gugu Mona
There’s a voice that says: "So what?"It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of public opinion, querulous and smug and fortified by just a little knowledge, which as always is a dangerous thing. "So what if a bunch of species go extinct?" It says. "Extinction is a natural process. Darwin himself said so, didn’t he? Extinction is the complement of evolution, making room for new species to evolve. There have always been extinctions. So why worry about these extinctions currently being caused by humanity?" And there has always been a pilot light burning in your furnace. So why worry when your house is on fire?
— David Quammen, The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinctions
Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!
— Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
I may not have had a great background, but I am grateful because nothing could have prepared me for the future than the past I've been through.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the rings. Occasionally I think about the future, but I try to do that sparingly because it usually makes me anxious.
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
The only thing I cannot predict is the future
— Amit Trivedi, Riding The Roller Coaster: Lessons from financial market cycles we repeatedly forget
The last trillion-dollar industry was built on a code of 1s and 0s. The next will be built on our own genetic code.
— Alec J. Ross, The Industries of the Future
People who have been there forever, left to their own devices, are rarely in the best position to design the future. It’s those who consciously listen to the constituents of the future who can understand which direction to move in.
— Crystal Kadakia, The Millennial Myth: Transforming Misunderstanding Into Workplace Breakthroughs
It's almost as if Kennedy grabbed a decade out of the 21st century," Cernan said, "and spliced it into the 1960s." That helps to explain why, as I wrote in 1993 in the preface of this book, we weren't entirely ready for Apollo, and why we have struggled to absorb its impact ever since it happened. How could the most futuristic thing humans have ever done be so far in the past?
— Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon
The truth is that none of us is wise enough to know our best future. We do not have the vision to see around every corner. But God does. He is both wise and eternal. This means he knows what is best and sees everything that is coming... If God is who he says he is, then he has control of all the tomorrows and we need not worry about them one more day.
— Jon Morrison
He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space.
— Liu Cixin
The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for something, one came out clutching - what? A bit of string, scraps of cloth, shadows of the golden time. If one could only reverse it, turn the past into future, and catch it on the wing, on its journey across the always shifting line of the present ...
— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
what you do today is the foundation upon which your future will stand
— Topsy Gift
The building blocks that form the foundation of your great and successful future, are the actions you take today
— Topsy Gift
Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not.
— François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!
— Rafaa Khiari
Future will forgive us but are you ready to forgive your past?
— J. Limbu
Yesterday is a closed door. Tomorrow is the opening of a new one. What are you doing to seize the moment?
— D. Allen Miller, Scarlet Tears
One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white stars as Vega and Sirius, and, on a more humble scale, our own Sun. Not until all these have flamed through their incandescent youth, in a few fleeting billions of years, will the real history of the universe begin.It will be a history illuminated only by the reds and infrareds of dully glowing stars that would be almost invisible to our eyes; yet the sombre hues of that all-but-eternal universe may be full of colour and beauty to whatever strange beings have adapted to it. They will know that before them lie, not the millions of years in which we measure eras of geology, nor the billions of years which span the past lives of the stars, but years to be counted literally in the trillions.They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge. They will be like gods, because no gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command. But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of creation; for we knew the universe when it was young.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?
— Alice Walker, The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart
A poet is born in the present, lives in the past and thinks in the future.
— TRIPURARI
You can't have a wrong mentality about life and expect that you will see the bright side of life.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Your vision will determine your future, mirror only helps you to see your ugly or beautiful face, but only the vision you have can take you far beyond your expectations and imaginations in life.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
The apocalypse was supposed to be cliché drama, Godzilla roaming the streets and zombies crawling from graves to devour the living. I guess all of humankind wanted to believe they’d end with a bang instead of unnoticed silence. We all, deep down, want to believe in a future where our historical monuments and literature hold significance. We want our deaths to be important. We want to matter.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe.
— Germany Kent
Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see.
— Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Dear Teenage Self,That guy you're crazy about,Will ask you out On a dateIn about ten years, so don't fretYou'll get there yet.But fate is cruelOn that day,That feeling will have gone away.
— Joyce Rachelle
We must learn to choose between lining our bank accounts and being accountable for our future.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you
— Sunday Adelaja
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or sorrow or wonder than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.
— Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future.
— Jim Rohn
Truth be told, if Islam and the Sixth Mass Extinction continue on their path unhindered, chances are worlds will collide with high casualty rates...
— Anita B. Sulser PhD, We Are One
We need to START buying our KIDS more ($00.50) BOOKS and less ($50.00) Video-Games
— Omar Hickman
If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.
— Mike Klepper
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
There are so many futures still to dawn!
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
Can you lose your inborn talents? Can the gifts you come into this world with be taken away without your even noticing? Maybe it’s my fault for wanting always to stem the fires within me? Perhaps there are some fires that should be allowed to rage on?
— Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires
In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
There may be a future for me after all and one day, I may live long enough to give this bracelet to my grandson. Willis knew he had the code as soon as he read the assignment in the blue folder. It’s in his hands now. As Tayla said, it’s the future, we don’t get to know how it ends.
— If I Wake
I die,” I say with as much conviction as I can muster. “What happens to me then?” Willis says. “If you don’t live, I never have a chance to be born, to live, to make a difference. You’re throwing my life away and I have no say in it.” “What if the world is a better place without me in it?” “My grandmother made a huge difference to the lives of so many people
— If I Wake
... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.
— George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
That still did not invalidate their purity in his eyes, so long as they continued to live the way they lived: sitting on the floor, eating with their fingers, cooking and sleeping first in one room, then in another, or in the vast patio with its fountains, or on the roof, leading the existence of nomads inside the beautiful shell which was the house. If he had felt that they were capable of discarding their utter preoccupation with the present, in order to consider the time not yet arrived, he would straightway have lost interest in them and condemned them as corrupt.
— Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
Purpose expands the reason and future of every plan
— Sunday Adelaja
If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to.
— Owen Jones
My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count Of Monte Cristo / Le Comte De Monte Cristo:  English French Parallel Text Edition
Where there is no relationship with God there is no future
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t give up on trying everyday
—  those who gave up yesterday are living today regretting that they never tried again and again.
May our words blaze the way to our future
— Paul Bradley Smith
Forget the Past. Doubt the Future. Love the Present.
— Broken
Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Plans are fragile things, and life often dashes expectations to the ground.
— Kriea/Darth Traya
Who you are married to determines what your future will look like
— Sunday Adelaja
To rid oneself of the past is to forgo the future...
— Nanette L. Avery
We think a lot of things but can not take the right steps at the right time. And this is why the next time we're gonna regret.
— Sudeb Gharami
Aim for the moon, but in your way there don't forget to dance with the stars and shine as bright as the sun.
— Tilicia Haridat
You can see the future only when he that knows the future reveals it to you
— Sunday Adelaja
One cannot have a future if he does not serve God, the one and only God
— Sunday Adelaja
I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.
— Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
If you see a piece of paper on the floor, don't ignore it, pick it up, write down your dream, and carry it everywhere you go . . .
— Manuel Corazzari
As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet.
— Natasha Tsakos
Some people view Gene as a man with a wild futuristic utopian fantasy, but that’s too simple. Star Trek did not promise that people would magically become inherently “better,” but that they would progress, always reaching for their highest potential and noblest goals, even if it took centuries of taking two steps forward and one step back. Ideally, humankind would be guided in its quest by reason and justice. The ultimate futility of armed conflict, terrorism, dictatorial rule, prejudice, disregard for the environment, and exercising power for its own sake was demonstrated time and again
— Nichelle Nichols, Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories
We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort and our standards will keep rising. We want to feel, we want to experience, we want to connect, we want intelligence, and we want to play; Ladies and Gentlemen: A new theatre is on its way.
— Natasha Tsakos
Always remember that your future is determined by what you do today, not tomorrow.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad's Retire Young, Retire Rich: How to Get Rich Quickly and Stay Rich Forever!
When leaders wonder what they can do to position their societies for the industries of the future, they need to open up and resist control-freak tendencies. The 21st century is a terrible time to be a control freak; future grown depends on empowering people.
— Alec J. Ross, The Industries of the Future
You haven't met your Way yet. It hasn't so much as kissed your hand! You haven't even at the door of the hall where your Way dances. But look here, look see, I've got them, I've caught them up just for you, a big bouquet of anywhere you want to go. Just pick a bloom, my girl, hold it to your pretty nose.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
- ^ -^ ^ ^Are we living in a psychopathic, doggy-dog system? -What about a new language - a new ethics?
— -Me
Never forget,' says Sugar Daddy, 'we are a nation built on sugar. It is our history and it is the source of our prosperity, now and in the future.'This is true. Our entire nation sits on reclaimed land made from sugar. Ours is an island that rose out of the sea, built on a hard core of toffee.
— Julie Koh, Capital Misfits
As we begin to internalize the technological kingdoms we have built, as we progressively become more superhuman, what will differentiate us from machinery?
— Natasha Tsakos
There's always room for Jell-O
— David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries
How will the performer-audience interaction change, now that we are so used to participating in the lives of strangers?
— Natasha Tsakos
Our vocabulary may become a real time algorithmic word bank. Could you imagine having a conversation like that? Where the meaning of words constantly adapts?
— Natasha Tsakos
Once we’ve become Gods, And Superheroes, and Spidermen(ed) through the web of potential, what will be next?
— Natasha Tsakos
We are always going somewhereelse
— Natasha Tsakos
She pulls me further down. More trapped souls reach out to us, dressed in clothes from decades past. The girl ignores them as we descend along the timeline – decade by decade – towards the birth of the island.
— Julie Koh, Capital Misfits
One cannot have a future if he doesn’t serve the one and only God
— Sunday Adelaja
Understanding and accepting the decisions you have made, good or bad, will make you bolder. Reflection helps punctuate your past and indent your future.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first step; it is the first action; it is the first move before any move, it is the first of everything!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your PAST is not your FUTURE. It's just a reference to your future. Your Future is yet to be explored so don't replay your past especially the bad experiences in your anticipated future.
— Oscar Bimpong
The only way to predict the future is to create it. You don't let it happen. You make it happen. How? Stop regretting the past and start learning from it. Let go of guilt by leaning into God's grace. Quit beating yourself up and let the Spirit of God heal your heart. You cannot divorce yourself from the past. You are married to it forever. But God wants to reconcile your past by redeeming it. God is in the recycling business
—  He makes recycled goods out of wasted lives.
On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, 'The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.' Dark, she seems to be saying, as in inscrutable, not as in terrible. We often mistake the one for the other. Or we transform the future's unknowability into something certain, the fulfillment of all our dread, the place beyond which there is no way forward. Be again and again, far stranger things happen than the end of the world.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
We worry too much about the future. And fail to enjoy the moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have a past, okay? And you really don't want to get involved with it.''Everybody's got a past,' he said. 'That doesn't mean you can't have a future.
— Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl
How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that's our sign to keep going
— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic
The forces are there, we cannot will them away. All we can do is learn to live with them. And we cannot learn this unless we are willing to tell the truth about ourselves, and the truth about us is always at variance with what we wish to be.
— Unknown
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
— Hyacil Han, Investing Made Easy: 50 Extremely Beneficial Business that are Undeniable Cash Cows
The future cannot be controlled, only experienced.
— John Izzo
It's for sure that nobody wants to be played from somebody out son logically bets are something from paradox world.Paradox is now the comming future, so get prepared.
— Deyth Banger
For us to change history, we first need to change the future.
— Anthony Liccione
When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Opportunities don't just happen. You create them
— Hyacil Han, Investing Made Easy: 50 Extremely Beneficial Business that are Undeniable Cash Cows
It's not just about ideasit's about making ideas happenDO IT!
— Hyacil Han, Investing Made Easy: 50 Extremely Beneficial Business that are Undeniable Cash Cows
My future was a blank slate and only I could write on it.
— Carter Quinn, Fire & Rain
If tomorrow is promised to no one, why do we spend today building the foundation for tomorrow. The future may not be promised, but it may be filled with promise.
— Nikki DiCaro
The hot desert to be their home, evil is their air.
— Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
The land is in the bones. The earth will be packed with sinful souls. And there will still walk a body that will not be willing to change for the better.
— Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
People write about "How they feel"... "Where they are now"...
— Deyth Banger
If you have nothing planned for the future, you have no need of a future.
— Ron D Sharp
Don't grieve over the past, It's all gone!Don't worry about the future, It may never come! Live in the present, And enjoy every moment.
— Mouloud Benzadi
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
— Charles Givens
Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Sometimes writers write about a world that does not yet exist. We do it for a hundred reasons. (Because it’s good to look forward, not back. Because we need to illuminate a path we hope or we fear humanity will take. Because the world of the future seems more enticing or more interesting than the world of today. Because we need to warn you. To encourage. To examine. To imagine.) The reasons for writing about the day after tomorrow, and all the tomorrows that follow it, are as many and as varied as the people writing.
— Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Paco Fuentes," Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary.The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. "Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father never did finish my class and he flunked one of my tests, although I have a feeling your mother was the one who should have failed. But that just means I'll expect extra from you.
— Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions.
— Oscar Bimpong
Don't be a prisoner of the past, become a pioneer of the future.
— Farshad Asl
Entrepreneurship is not a title, it is a mindset, a way of life; it is the future!
— Farshad Asl
There was no sudden twists or ups and downs, just stories of that person's everyday life. The theme was "growing old". There were no beautiful wo
— Takashi Kajii, My Little Sister Can Read Kanji: Volume 1
Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
— Deyth Banger
In the future we would have total storage, all of us would, our media libraries would dematerialise and just float above us, books would no longer sit on the shelves reminding us that we had not read them, music and TV and film formats would no longer clutter the den reminding us of all we had not yet listened to or watched.
— Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers
When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.
— Freeman Dyson, From Eros to Gaia
We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.
— Chuck Wendig, Invasive
Rich people think long-term. they balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tommorow
— Hyacil Han
Rich people think long term. they balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing fore freedom tomorrow.
— Hyacil Han, Investing Made Easy: 50 Extremely Beneficial Business that are Undeniable Cash Cows
What we are at this very moment is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment. And the step that you take at this moment, will determine your future. Past and future both require a functional mind to exist. Only the present prevails independent of mind – independent of life.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Unexpected clashes between past and present may arouse a surge of bewilderment, but ‘time’ can be a redeemer and heal mental wreckage. Time might prove to be a dependable ally and a reliable coach to find a new inspiring sequel for the future. (“Disruption”)
— Erik Pevernagie
The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The question was, could he forgive the past in order to have a future with her? Any future?
— Nicola Sinclair, Promise
I know I could be Anything,But i rather Be Myself.
— Look Im A Cat
The best was created without sleeping and drinking coca-cola. For what am I talking?For the Future of the computers check out the beginning then check out the "now".
— Deyth Banger
The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it’s only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.
— Roshan Sharma
But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.
— Martina Boone, Illusion
Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No one can ever foresee the future Sonya. You can only judge what's up ahead based on the conditions of the present. Remember that.
— Lauren Lola, An Absolute Mind
America is a great country. We have a lot to be proud of, and a lot to look forward to being proud of. But let's not ever forget to look back into the past, learn from it, and embrace it, for to deny the past is a dark path to go down.
— Lauren Lola, An Absolute Mind
It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now.
— Shannon L. Alder
If we’ve somehow become convinced that the script we followed ‘yesterday’ can’t be edited, it will be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Okay we both know... what happens... with sex... different places... different time... different date... different rooms... the biatch is still bitchy.... very bitchy as pitchy.... The agony - DOOOOOO YOU FEEL IT?- wE JUST PREDICTED THE FUTURE!
— Deyth Banger
Be happy today, let the past bury and let the future fly.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
There is no past, present, or future; there is only meow, right meow, and what you do with your one shot at life.
— Aaron Dennis
... the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.
— Chuck Klosterman, But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Science/horror/Non-Fiction/Technology/Music/Games/Space... these are the subjects of future. The other again will develop but not with such speed like these here.
— Deyth Banger
If you are unaware of what's within, you will be shown in the mirror of your near future life experience. Wiser to keep a step ahead.
— Jay Woodman
...but the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.
— Chuck Klosterman
Dec. 31… “Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
That's what I wanted. Something to enrich me, to make me feel better about the things in my life that I could never change." - Page 56
— Sophie Jordan, Foreplay
Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Thinking too much about the future, especially in terms of wants and desires, constricts us. First of all, it does little, if anything to achieve goals. Secondly, consider, that what you think you may want tomorrow may not actually be what you want tomorrow. You are ever-changing and constantly evolving. It’s OK to want better for the future, but don’t expect for the future. Just as introspection is very challenging, so is knowing what is in fact good or best for us and the path there. We may think we need to do things one way, when in fact, we may need to do them in a completely different way.
— Akiroq Brost
Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do anything he set his mind to. But he'd say it in a far-off way, as if he didn't really mean it or care much at all.
— Jennifer Niven, American Blonde
The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
Live for the present, and the future will be known before it ever happens.
— Avinash Rao
I always sense the future, the antithesis of everything is always before my eyes. I have never seen a child without thinking that it would grow old, nor a cradle without thinking of a grave. The sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton.
— Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing.
— M.L. Stedman
The past never went away and it was not designed to do so. It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever
In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.
— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.
— Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness
Decisions always refer to the future.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.
— Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness
In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. To be sure, people tend to see only the stubble fields of transitoriness but overlook and forget the full granaries of the past into which they have brought the harvest of their lives: the deeds done, the loves loved, and last but not least, the sufferings they have gone through with courage and dignity.From this one may see that there is no reason to pity the old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no opportunities, no possibilities in the future. But they have more than that: Instead of possibilities in the future, they have realities in the past -the potentialities they have actualized, the meanings they have fulfilled, the values they have realized -and nothing and nobody can ever remove these assets from the past.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Future is the most difficult problem of our era.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Your past isn’t there to decide who you are
—  it’s there to guide you to a better version of yourself.
Just because we’ve made poor or wrong choices in the past, does not limit us from making wise and good choices now.
— Toni Sorenson
Don't spend so much time chasing your future that you run over your present.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
I'm married to the future.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew.
— Shannon L. Alder
However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!
— Mehmet Murat ildan