Visions Of The Future Quotes - Page 2

• Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

  Jay Chiat

  Mean, Talking, Development

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.

  Nainoa Thompson

  Thinking, Connections, Shapes

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• In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

  Randy Weston

  Past, People, Purpose

  Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins (2015). “African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston”, p.298, Duke University Press

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• The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Past, Facts

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Past, Men, Giving

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.

  Tim Cook

  Expression, Ipads, Computing

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• We're also confident that gamers are going to love our vision of the future.

  Larry Hryb

  Xbox, Vision, Gamer

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• Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Men, Risk

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• Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Skills, Curiosity, Mind

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.

  A. O. Scott

  Eye, Past, Cameras

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• Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strength, Two, Age

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• I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

  Desmond Tutu

  Race, Color, People

  Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

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• Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.

  Seth

  Believe, People, Optimism

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• I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

  Avi Lewis

  Disaster, Feels, Very Strong

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was taking about. In 1990-91, no Russian hordes. Okay, what happens? Well there are actually visions of the future system that were presented. One was [Mikhail] Gorbachev. He called for a Eurasian security system, with no military blocs. He called it a Common European Home. No military blocs, no Warsaw Pact. Just an integrated security system with no conflicts.Now the other vision was presented by George Bush, this is the "statesman".

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Home, Security Systems

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

  Joanna Macy

  Women, Essentials, Earth

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• I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

  John Betjeman

  Towers, Fields, Silver

  John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.177, A&C Black

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• The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Education, Future, Past

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• I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Trust, Future, Reality

  "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation". Speech at Sweet Briar College, gos.sbc.edu. April 02, 1993.

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• Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

  Richard Corliss

  Future, Yesterday, Vision

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• My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

  Joss Whedon

  Flying Cars, Issues, Rich

  Joss Whedon (2003). “Fray”

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• I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.

  LeVar Burton

  Stars, Fans, Genes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Mistake, Past

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 18, 2011

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• The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

  Peter Merry

  Future, Attachment, Vision

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• As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we must first have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process.

  Thomas Berry

  Dream, Future, Artist

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.10, Crown

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