Future Quotes - Page 16

• The future starts today, not tomorrow.

  Pope John Paul II

  Dream, Inspiration, Carpe Diem

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• The future is not what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Happy Accidents, Used, Engineers

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• The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

  William J. Clinton

  Opportunity, Inheritance, Obligation

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• All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

  George Orwell

  Past, Thinking, Years

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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• When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Promise, Literature, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.103, Random House

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• It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Merit, Duty

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

  John F. Kennedy

  Diversity, Brotherhood, Cuban Missile Crisis

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

  Howard Zinn

  Hope, Thinking, Compassion

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

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• What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places--and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

  Howard Zinn

  People, Giving, World

  Howard Zinn (2006). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.270, City Lights Publishers

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• I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Time, Forecasting, Future And Present

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• The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Reality, Accountability, Possibility

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• The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Wise, Journey

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• Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial stars. They will be able to look up at the night sky and watch the stately procession of the Ports of Earth-the strange new harbors where the ships of space make their planetfalls and their departures.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dream, Stars, Inspiration

  Arthur C. Clarke (1968). “the Promise of Space”

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• The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

  Jim Moran

  Positive, Swimming, Law Of Attraction

  Jim Moran (1996). “Jim Moran, the Courtesy Man: Inside the Heart of One of the Most Successful Marketers in the Automobile Industry”

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  Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Trust, Faith, God

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• Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.

  Eva Paterson

  Brother, Moving, Butterfly

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• If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

  Edward de Bono

  Design, Ifs

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• But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

  Wendell Berry

  Environmental, Guarantees, Sustainability

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.51, Counterpoint

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  Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

  Jerry Rice

  Motivational, Success, Sports

  "Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Know How, Knows

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• The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Past, Reality, Live In The Moment

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• The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Consolation

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.73

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• You see, it's all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Were Meant To Be, Premonition, Clear

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• I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Past, Forecasts, My Past

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