Future Thinking Quotes

• If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

  John Galsworthy

  Future, Thinking, Ifs

  Swan Song (1928).

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• The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

  Mark Twain

  Future, Interest, My Future

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• The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking, People, Purpose

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• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thinking, Worry, Anxiety

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• Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Law, World, Future Progress

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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  The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Inspirational, Graduation

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

  Robin Sharma

  Life, Positive, Time

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House

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• May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Wise, Dream, Past

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Future, Thinking

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• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fear, Future, Adventure

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (8), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 18, 2015

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• Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

  Billy Corgan

  Past, Thinking, Way

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• Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Past, Men

  "The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man" by Michael Amrine, New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.

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• I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Thinking, Moon, Space

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.

  Alan Watts

  Time, Past, Thinking

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• The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Exercise, Thinking, Finals

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed into the future, thinking that tomorrow things are going to be better, a lottery is going to open in your name. But of course you have to wait for tomorrow, it cannot be just now - and tomorrow never comes. All that comes is always the present moment, which is empty. Greed is because we don't know how to live the present moment in its total richness.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Thinking, Names

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