Future Quotes

"During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"What I learned growing up on the farm was a The fact is for nearly three years President Obama has been downgrading American jobs. He's been downgrading our standing in the world. He's been downgrading our financial stability. He's been downgrading our confidence, and downgrading the hope for a better future for our children. That's a fact"

Rick Perry, Politician

"As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future"

Alison Lurie, Novelist

"When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future"

Bernard Meltzer, Lawyer

"Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways"

Arthur Capper, Politician

"When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together"

Andy Taylor

"Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future"

Brian Tracy, Author

"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose"

Brian Tracy, Author

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

"We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future"

Tony Robbins, Author

"It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring"

Julien Benda, Philosopher

"Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters"

Raymond Aron, Philosopher

"I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does"

Viola Davis, Actress

"The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?"

Otto Rank, Psychologist

"I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese"

Iain Banks, Writer

"Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility"

Rick Perry, Politician

"It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system"

Gavyn Davies, Businessman

"I touch the future. I teach"

Christa McAuliffe, Astronaut

"I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that"

Prince William, Royalty

"We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq"

John Abizaid, Soldier

"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people"

John Abizaid, Soldier

"Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment"

Charles Stanley, Clergyman

"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently"

Mitchell Reiss, Diplomat

"Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?"

Mitchell Reiss, Diplomat

"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way"

Eileen Caddy, Celebrity

"My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future"

Jean Alesi, Celebrity

"I think I will have a lot of opportunities in the future"

Jean Alesi, Celebrity

"I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world"

Bernardo Bertolucci, Director

"I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future"

Minoru Yamasaki, Architect

"But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country"

John Abizaid, Soldier

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