Live Futures Quotes

• While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspiration, Future, Past

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.268, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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• If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Dream, Dark, Men

  Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.

  Eric Schmidt

  Forever, Needs, World

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• I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

  Andy Warhol

  Waiting, Pieces, Lasts

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

  Hyman Rickover

  Jobs, Believe, Fate

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81”

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• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Faith, Two

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• And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Dream, Past, Trying

  FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Apr 09, 2016

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• But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Dream, Dark, Past

  Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

  Alexandre Dumas

  Kings, Men, World

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.8956, Delphi Classics

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• Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Reality, Missing

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• Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.

  Jack Kornfield

  Memories, Writing, Sacrifice

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