Future Events Quotes

• Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, New Years Resolution, Events

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• Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Goal, Events, Preview

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jul 14, 2013

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• Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.

  Jasper Fforde

  Giving, Flow, Events

  Jasper Fforde (2012). “The Last Dragonslayer”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Real, Past, Identity

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.578, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.

  Jillian Michaels

  Events, Transformation, Activity

  Jillian Michaels (2011). “Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.52, Harmony

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• If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

  William James

  Change, Believe, Reality

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• It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Events, Impossible, Guidance

  "Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Biographical". "Nobel Lectures, Literature 1968-1980", edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Sture Allén, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, www.nobelprize.org. 1993.

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• The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.

  Maimonides

  Character, Men, Law

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1116, Moses Maimonides

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• The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.

  William Greider

  Entrepreneur, Creative, Vision

  William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

  Gerda Lerner

  Knowledge, Past, Actions Have Consequences

  Gerda Lerner (1998). “Why History Matters: Life and Thought”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Future events cast their shadow before them.

  Tim LaHaye

  Shadow, Events, Casts

  Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (2011). “Are We Living in the End Times?”, p.43, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The legislator must be in advance of his age.
  Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sight, Mind, Age

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1994). “Papers”

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• We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Order, Perfect, Events

  "Always expect the unexpected". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.wired.com. April 1, 2007.

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• Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Doctors, Practice

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.

  W. G. Sebald

  Space, House, Waiting

  W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.158, Penguin UK

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• That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.

  John Dos Passos

  Past, Events, High Standards

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• The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Future, Men, Mind

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• Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?

  Esther Hicks

  Positive, Thinking, Appreciate

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• The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fear, Motivation

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• It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.

  John Key

  Stupid, Impossible Things, Leader

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• The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Sight, Scotland

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 26, 1799.

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• It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, People, Important

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving, September 11, Way

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• God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

  Matthew Henry

  Dark, Events, May

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.946

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• Happiness is not a future event.

  Joe Fortenberry

  Happiness, Events

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