The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.
Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.
Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.
Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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