Future Quotes - Page 17

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Past, Forecasts, My Past

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• Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

  Herbert Hoover

  Science, Past, Generations

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  World, Chance, Sometimes

  "Joyzelle (Act I)". Book by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1903.

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• What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

  Rob Bell

  Believe, Shapes, Determine

  Twitter post from Sep 04, 2012

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• From today, painting is dead.

  Paul Delaroche

  Today, Painting

  Stephen Bann, Paul Delaroche (1997). “Paul Delaroche: History Painted”, p.4, Reaktion Books

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• You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

  China Mieville

  Mean, Two, Answers

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• While I was sleeping, I had a beautiful dream that all the people of the world got together on the same wavelength and began helping each other.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Beautiful, Dream, Sleep

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• Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

  Bob Dylan

  Queens, Prayer, Expectations

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand-- I turn my face away; I'll not invite her to my home-- I only love Today.

  Phil Jackson

  Home, Hands, Giving

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• In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

  David Rakoff

  Glimpse, Looks, Care

  David Rakoff (2005). “Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems”, p.222, Anchor

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• One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Glasses, Looks, Patterns

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.13

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• Tomorrow will be a new day.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  New Day, Tomorrow

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.728, Wordsworth Editions

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• Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.

  Alvin Toffler

  Men, Data, Outcomes

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Glowing, Curtains

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• You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

  Isaac Asimov

  Needs, Way, Emotion

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• The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Memories, Past, Mind

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.15, Hackett Publishing

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• The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.

  Gerald Massey

  Summer, Eden, Ripening

  Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.395

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• Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dark, Men, Lions

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.128, Del Rey

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• Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
  [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et
  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro
  Appone.]

  Horace

  Stores, Cease

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• While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Men, Joy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

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• Is there a rarer being,
  Is there a fairer sphere
  Where the strong are not unseeing,
  And the harvests are not sere;
  Where, ere the seasons dwindle
  They yield their due return;
  Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
  While the flames of youth still burn?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Strong, Yield, Flames

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]

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• When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

  Marvin Gaye

  Children, Suffering, Sorrow

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• What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Premonition, Mankind, Left Behind

  Song: I Don't Know

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• You create your future with the power of your intention. Intention is simply the conscious act of determining your future now.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Intention, Conscious, Your Future

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Water Of Life, Events, Obscurity

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