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• If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

  John Galsworthy

  Thinking, Ifs, Your Future

  Swan Song (1928).

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• Be the designer of your own destiny.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Life, Motivational, Fate

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• Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

  Bruce Mau

  Time, Children, Work

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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Past, Political Language, Libertarian

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• A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Memorable, Men

  Albert Einstein, Anna Beck, Peter Havas (1987). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The early years, 1879-1902”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• The future depends on what we do in the present.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Success, Peace

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• It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.50, City Lights Books

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  Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Past, Three

  Speech by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions, www.gov.uk. June 30, 2010.

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• Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

  Horace

  Thankful

  "Carmina". Book by Horace, I. 9. 13, 13 BC.

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• The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Science, Past, Scientist

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• We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

  Barack Obama

  Presidential, Shapes, My Future

  Speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care Reform, delivered 9 September 2009

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• The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

  Jim Bishop

  Mirrors, Trying, Looks

  Jim Bishop (1966). “Jim Bishop, reporter”

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

  Dean Acheson

  Live In The Moment, One Day, Live In The Present

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• As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 24, 2011

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• I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

  George Eliot

  Past, Ties, Desire

  "The Mill on the Floss". Volume II,

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• We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

  Gunter Grass

  Growth, Environmental Pollution, Statistics

  "Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best", www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.

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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Time

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.2, Ballantine Books

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• Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Harvest Time, Years, Live In The Moment

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

  George Orwell

  Time, Freedom, Imagination

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• We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

  Max Planck

  Science, Law, Assuming

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Educational, Inspiration, Goal

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• All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

  George Orwell

  Past, Thinking, Years

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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• When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Promise, Literature, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.103, Random House

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