Future Quotes - Page 35

• You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Dream, Past, Survival

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• The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Children, Community, Decision

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• The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Greatness, Yesterday, American West

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• A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Men, May

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• When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Memories, Thinking

  Richard Louv (1998). “Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us”, p.190, Conari Press

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• The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Business, Vision

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• Simple molecules combine to make powerful chemicals. Simple cells combine to make powerful life-forms. Simple electronics combine to make powerful computers. Logically, all things are created by a combination of simpler, less capable components. Therefore, a supreme being must be in our future, not our origin. What if "God" is the consciousness that will be created when enough of us are connected by the Internet?!!

  Scott Adams

  God, Powerful, Science

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• Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of our political economy: it will mean we are more likely to live sane, fruitful lives

  Oliver James

  Mean, Heart, Political

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• Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life

  Richard Rogers

  Long, Vision, Use

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• Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Vision, Gauges

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• He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.

  Carol Shields

  Fear, Dare, Concern

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.25, Penguin

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• The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done

  Edward Young

  Dream, Pie, Long

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• We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

  Kathleen Norris

  Children, Giving, May

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1931). “Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women”

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• Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

  George Leonard

  Surprise, Predictions

  George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.139, Gibbs Smith

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• I naturally believe there will be a future, but I do not waste my time imagining its radiant beauty. ... It seems to me that we ought to think first about the present. Even if the present is desperately dark, I do not wish to leave it. Will tomorrow be free from darkness? We'll talk about that tomorrow.

  Lu Xun

  Believe, Dark, Thinking

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• Money won't change you, but time will take you out.

  James Brown

  Premonition

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• I have not the most definite designs on the future.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Design, Dogma, Definite

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

  Leo Errera

  Flower, Science, Humanity

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• Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

  Alan Lakein

  Leadership, Military, Planning Ahead

  "The Importance of Planning Ahead" by Karen Trepte, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2017.

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• If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're living in a time-with our technology-we have the capability to eliminate that major shaper of evolution . . . the evolution of life on this planet.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Technology, Impact, Earth

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• I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

  Theodore von Karman

  Pessimistic, Achieve, Predictions

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• What will happen to the spirit of this ancient dreaming land without the great mobs of kangaroos bounding across the song lines, energizing the land? Will the sunset and dawn mourn the passing of the creatures who danced in their light?

  Sue Arnold

  Dream, Song, Sunset

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• Who will mourn the passing of our magnificent kangaroos? Who will remember how the bush once danced in rhythm with the thumping, jumping kangaroos who flew over fences their great tails drumming on the earth? Who will remember the big red male kangaroo lying in the desert sun, his coat almost indistinguishable from the red earth from which he came?

  Sue Arnold

  Lying, Jumping, Desert

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• The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing economies of East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The coming eruption of carbon emissions from the poor world will dwarf any reductions in the North.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Latin, Carbon Emissions, America

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• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Motivational, Continuing On, Decision

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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