The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.
We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think "we're all in this together" is a better philosophy than "you're on your own."
Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%
Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.
A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.
She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. The past is the past. I just want to focus on the future, and getting better, not making the same mistakes and just becoming a better person, a better artist. Just a better everything.
What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present
I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.
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