The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’
It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today’s economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
You never say never. There’s always a chance to do things in the future.
The future is purchased by the present.
Orwell’s ‘1984’ convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
My past is my wisdom to use today… my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
As a society, we can’t hide from the future; we have to build and own it.
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don’t care whose fault it is, it’s the truth.
I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Augmented and virtual reality technologies are the future of smart construction and we are just starting to see the possibilities.
You can’t gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
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