Future Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

  Jim Rohn

  Hands, Purpose, Mediocrity

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• You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.

  Catherine DeVrye

  Wisdom, Mirrors, Vision

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• The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Adventure, Hiking

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• I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

  Buck Henry

  Science, Want, Plastic

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• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

  Albert Einstein

  Winter, Science, Thinking

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• I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.

  George Wald

  Mean, Science, Thinking

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• Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we should all strive-the future health, wealth, and security of our democracy depend on it. Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Science, Community

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Sounds The Alarm Over Science Illiteracy, And For Good Reason" By David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2015.

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• One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

  Edward Teller

  Science, Uncertainty Principle, Principles

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.235, Basic Books

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• Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.

  Joel Osteen

  Single Mom, Destiny, Waste

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2014

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• How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Strong, Flower, Perfect

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6265, Delphi Classics

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• Only those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Love, Happiness, World

  M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.122, Tughra Books

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• People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Morrow, Doubtful

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

  Erich Fromm

  Past, Men, Boredom

  "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

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• All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

  William Blake

  Desperate, Rage, Destruction

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.421, Pearson Education

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• The future struggles that it may not become the past.

  Publilius Syrus

  Struggle, Past, May

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• What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

  Sophocles

  Men, Waiting, Events

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

  Epicurus

  May, Remember, Certain

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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