Future Quotes - Page 26

• In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

  Sigmund Freud

  Distance, Past, Yield

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• These tenses-past, present and future-are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. That which is no longer before the mind becomes the past. That which is before the mind is the present. And that which is going to be before the mind is the future. Past is that which is no longer before you. Future is that which is not yet before you. And present is that which is before you and is slipping out of your sight. Soon it will be past.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Sight, Mind

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• Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

  Shinjo Ito

  Past, Looks, Our Actions

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• We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

  Geri Halliwell

  Past, Hope For The Future

  Song: Love Is The Only Light, Album: Scream If You Wanna Go Faster

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• In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

  Winston Churchill

  Past, Land, Light

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

  Lyman Abbott

  Past, Batteries, Might

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• Indemnity for the past and security for the future.

  Bertrand Russell

  Past, Security

  "Memoir of Fox". Book by Siegfried Sassoon, vol. iii, 1928.

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• Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the past imperfect, the present insufficient, and the future absolutely perfect.

  Amrom Harry Katz

  Real, Reading, Past

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• The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Past, Holy Ground

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Lying, Past

  Rick Pitino (2001). “Lead to Succeed: 10 Traits of Great Leadership in Business and Life”, p.88, Crown Business

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• Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Stories, May

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• There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Peace, Worry

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• Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Views, Years

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• I bear witness that the Savior lives. He loves you. He will guide you through the Holy Ghost as you steadfastly choose to do what is right to a future glorious beyond your dreams. I know He will.

  Richard G. Scott

  Life, Dream, Love You

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• Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Past, Yawning

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 50,

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• Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child, white bird, and small blue dragon-fly Green fern, and the gold four-petalled tormentilla The ultimate memory. Each latent cell puts out a future, Unfolds its differing complexity As a tree puts forth leaves, and spins a fate Fern-traced, bird feathered, or fish-scaled.

  Kathleen Raine

  Life, Memories, Children

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.55, SteinerBooks

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• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Men, Links

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

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• To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Life, Responsibility, Men

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• What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future, — a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within.

  Horatio Dresser

  Life, Wise, Thinking

  "The Power of Silence: An Interpretation of Life in Its Relation to Health and Happiness".

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• I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Children, Ambition

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• It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Mind, Weight

  George Macdonald (2015). “Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood”, p.142, George Macdonald

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• Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!

  Denis Waitley

  Past, Each Day, Lasts

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• PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Past, Yesterday

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

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• My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Past, House

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• Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

  David Berlinski

  Time, Alliances, Philosopher

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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