Future Quotes - Page 24

• Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

  Gary Lawrence

  Agriculture, Choices, Political

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• Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question is where societies choose to put their creative efforts

  Christopher Flavin

  Effort, Creative, Healthy

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• People invest in your ability to deliver to them a more favorable future.

  Jeff Blackman

  People, Ability

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• The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, People, Way

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• The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

  Ilya Prigogine

  Heart, Creativity, Science

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fear, Thinking, People

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.66, New World Library

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• He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

  William Wordsworth

  Fear, Past, World

  William Wordsworth (1855). “Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.187

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• That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Thinking, Issues, Keys

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• There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.

  Laurence Overmire

  Commitment, Giving, Historical

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• History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

  Winston Churchill

  Past, Historical, Littles

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.

  Herbert Hoover

  Peace, Mean, Historical

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• Our children are the cement of life, its up to us to make the foundation of the future!

  Steph Cook

  Life, Children, Foundation

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• The future never just happened. It was created.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happened

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• Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.

  David O. McKay

  Home, America, Citizens

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• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

  Norbert Wiener

  Math, Progress, Prosperity

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.46, Da Capo Press

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• We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Travel, Jobs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Healing, Past, Tasks

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• The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Writing, Life Is, Unpredictable

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• The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Paul Wellstone

  Dream, Believe, Sidelines

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• The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?

  Price Pritchett

  Perspective, Entrepreneur, Risk

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• The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.

  George H. Brimhall

  Life, Preparation, Preparedness

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• It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

  Arthur Eddington

  Stars, Simple, Reasonable

  Arthur S. Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1926). “The Internal Constitution of the Stars”, p.393, Cambridge University Press

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• Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.

  Johannes Kepler

  Air, Space, People

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• As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the Moon and Jupiter. Who would have believed that a huge ocean could be crossed more peacefully and safely than the the narrow expanse of the Adriatic, the Baltic Sea or the English Channel? Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Ocean, Moon

  "Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal Messenger". Book by Edward Rosen, p. 39, 1965.

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• The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Art, Moon, Perfect

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