Thinking About The Future Quotes

• Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thinking, Worry, Anxiety

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• Your future depends on what you do today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Carpe Diem, Today, Future Self

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• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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• I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

  John Cale

  Thinking, Done, Kind

  "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. January 9, 2006.

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• You don't really want to be always thinking about the future, always thinking about where you're heading for. You've got to think about how you're getting there.

  Simon Le Bon

  Thinking, Want, Headings

  Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2015.

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• I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

  Phil Elvrum

  Thinking, Careers, Assumption

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Lost Love, Future

  "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".

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• I'm just enjoying life more and thinking about the future.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Thinking, Enjoy Life, Enjoy

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• The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking, People, Purpose

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

  Hugh Hefner

  Past, Thinking, Live In The Moment

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Will S.Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Bill Gates Sees Veggie Burgers in Your Future" by Josh Tetrick, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Thinking, Years

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

  Billy Corgan

  Past, Thinking, Way

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• I don't want to worry anymore thinking about the future. Mi Rae... 'Mi' meaning not yet. 'Rae' meaning coming. Why should I decide on the present, thinking about the future that's not here yet? I won't do that anymore.

  Yoon Mi-rae

  Drama, Thinking, Worry

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• I work out. I try to work out every day. That keeps me in the moment, which is great. Keeps my head from thinking about the future and the past too much. I love working out. That really helps me a lot.

  John Rzeznik

  Past, Thinking, Work Out

  "John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 is a great example, as is Tobias Buckell's novel Arctic Rising.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Numbers, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The moment that you have a child - that you know that when he'll turn 18, he'll join the Army and go there for three years of compulsory service - then you can't help yourself of thinking about the future - speculating about it, dreading it or even being - trying to be more active to change it and improve it.

  Etgar Keret

  Children, Army, Thinking

  "What Etgar Keret Learned From His Father About Storytelling And Survival". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 5, 2016.

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• We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in.

  Dwyane Wade

  Sweet, Past, Thinking

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• Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the
  past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I
  just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Regret, Past, Men

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• I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn.

  Story Musgrave

  Future, Science, Thinking About You

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not going to come, that future is just a fool's imagination. I don't think about the future. I am a totally different kind of person. I don't think about the future at all, it is irrelevant.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Future, Science, Thinking

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.310, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the tomorrows. Man always thinks of the past and the future, and because of this constant thinking about past and future, he destroys the present. And the present is the only reality there is. One has to live in the present. The past has to die and has to be allowed to die.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Past, Reality

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• Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some reason for thinking it intrinsically wrong to kill them - not absolutely wrong, but perhaps quite a serious wrong. Still, there are other animals - chickens maybe, or fish - who can feel pain but don't have any self-awareness or capacity for thinking about the future. For those animals, you haven't given me any reason why painless killing would be wrong, if other animals take their place and lead an equally good life.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Pain, Good Life

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