Future Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• 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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• It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

  Philip James Bailey

  Thinking, Fit

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.141

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• Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Mirrors, Faces, Left Behind

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• The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Surprise, Bounds

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• The never-ending flight Of future days.

  John Milton

  Flight, Never Ending, Paradise Lost Book 2

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.47

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• We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean me and I mean you. It is the future of our country-yours and mine-which is at stake.

  Henry Ford II

  Country, Attitude, Mean

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• You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Firsts, First Lady, Feels

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• I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.

  Daniel Burrus

  Eye, Thinking, Yesterday

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• Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it.

  Ayn Rand

  Knowledge, Rely, Knows

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.613, Hamilton Books

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• PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Practice, Selling

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.189, University of Georgia Press

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• Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

  Bob Brown

  Real, Gun, Contentment

  Bob Brown (2012). “Memo For A Saner World”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

  Helen Caldicott

  Optimistic, Thinking, Hands

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• FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

  Hazel Hawke

  Fighting, Earth, Speak

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• Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.

  Ian Lowe

  Creating, Everyday, Remember

  Ian Lowe (2005). “A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis”, p.108, Black Inc.

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• If you can see the invisible, then you can see the possible and provide the opportunities for trust, commitment and ways of empowering others to manage their past, present and future.

  Ken Wyatt

  Commitment, Past, Opportunity

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• As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.

  Ken Wyatt

  Dream, Integrity, People

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• We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.

  Kristy Hinze

  Unique, Australia, Forever

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• We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples.

  Patrick Dodson

  Inspirational, Change, Knowing

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• The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

  Peter Ellyard

  Design, Challenges, Innovation

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• Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

  Steve Irwin

  Warrior, Wildlife, Born

  Radio interview on Radio Alice (KLLC 97.3),

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