Future Quotes - Page 22

• Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

  Garth Brooks

  Choices, Made, Results

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• To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a planet - is not a typical hero's task. It is more the task of a gardener. The planet does not offer us challenges to be overcome to prove our worth or individuality; it presents us with a community to understand, a community with disparate needs and identities that are nonetheless intertwined in mutual dependencies.

  David Spangler

  Hero, Thinking, Order

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• The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing economies of East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The coming eruption of carbon emissions from the poor world will dwarf any reductions in the North.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Latin, Carbon Emissions, America

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• Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Work, Inspiration

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• I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

  William Allen White

  Positive, Encouraging, Time

  "Vice President Joe Biden's Commencement speech at WFU". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2009.

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• In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

  Robert Grudin

  Time, Waiting, Events

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

  Jim Bishop

  Life, Change, New Year

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• You can't have a better tomorrow if
  you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

  Charles Kettering

  Letting Go, Time, Attitude

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• Children have neither past nor future;
  they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Baby, Time

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• Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.

  John Mellencamp

  Understanding, Riding, Generations

  Song: Check It Out

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• I know my past is not what my future holds.

  R. Kelly

  Past, Knows, My Past

  R. Kelly, David Ritz (2012). “Soula Coaster”, p.9, Hay House, Inc

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• If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

  Mark Twain

  Want, Ifs

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• The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

  Robert Kennedy

  Achievement, Challenges, Generations

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

  John Legend

  Yesterday, Late

  Song: If You're Out There, Album: Evolver, 2008

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• In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  Science, Agriculture, Fuel

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes (2008). “The Future of Fossil Fuels: From "Hubbert's Peak"”, p.160, Princeton University Press

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• If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

  Byron Katie

  Reality, Want, Enlightened

  Interview with Sunny Massad, realization.org. October 23, 2001.

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• They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Secret, Promise

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• We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mind, News, Plans

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.157, Random House

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• Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

  John Denver

  Music, Stars, Wind

  Song: The Eagle and the Hawk, Album: Aerie, 1972

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• Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future - the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment - that is what will change the world.

  John Denver

  Commitment, Order, Healthy

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• You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Daughter, Son, Blood

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• I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Sea, Land

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.146, Penguin

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• God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Past, Garden

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Sweat, Important

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• For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert."

  Robert Greene

  Motto

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2014

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