Future Quotes - Page 27

• One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Creating, Desire

  Edgar Degas (1995). “Edgar Degas: Paintings”

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• Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

  Paul Gauguin

  Rose, May, Sun

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• You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fiction Novels, Pages, Science Fiction

  Neil Gaiman (2002). “Adventures in the Dream Trade”, N E S F A Press

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• Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.

  Anne Lamott

  Morning, Moving, Cake

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• It is difficult to predict, especially the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Difficult

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• Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

  David Hockney

  Art, Looks, Gone

  "David Hockney". Book by David Hockney, 1981.

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• It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

  Prince Philip

  Children, Hands, Quality

  Speech at the World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, in 1970. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Animal, Trying, Live In The Present

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.132, Shambhala Publications

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• You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Ideas, Pleasant, Efficient

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “Honey for the Bears”, p.187, W. W. Norton & Company

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• On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

  Martin Seligman

  Hands, Causes, Produce

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• Youth does not think into the future far enough, therefore we must encourage them to dream of great tomorrows.

  Henrietta Mears

  Dream, Thinking, Doe

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• I've been through a lot and I realise the future can't be controlled. I'm not worried. You can always learn to overcome difficulties.

  Niki Lauda

  Overcoming, Worried, Difficulty

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• To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

  Abdul Kalam

  Lines, Superficial, Unknown Future

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• Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Mean, Promise, Doe

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Past, Ashes, Willing

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• I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.

  Lawren Harris

  Lonely, Art, Race

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• It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just for the history of the United States and the survival indeed of our democracy, but for the future peace of the world. And never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.

  Walter Cronkite

  God, Time, Commitment

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• A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, Science

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• A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• Control of space means control of the world.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mean, Space, World

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “A Time for Action”

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• The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Space, Air

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• Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stars, War, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.668, Best Books on

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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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• The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Past, Holy Ground

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Lying, Past

  Rick Pitino (2001). “Lead to Succeed: 10 Traits of Great Leadership in Business and Life”, p.88, Crown Business

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