Top 1200 Fear Of The Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It's always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though they can be effective tools to help you get elected, they hinder your ability to actually get the job of building a better future for this country, for this community, done.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one.

The future is not really the future. It's just a present that looks good.

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, then the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. 'Cogito, ergo Deus est,' argues St. Augustine, 'I think, therefore God is.'

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

The future is our greatest adversary. We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

"Animal" is my favorite song because it's a reminder for me every night when I step on to stage that I am no longer a slave to fear. It's something I need to be reminded of constantly because fear is relentless. It will always continue to swing at me and this song is my armor and defense. It's my anthem in a sense to say fear will not hinder me anymore.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to their own selves-there is a horrendous gulf and disparity.

Any purchase is one for the future. If you buy a refrigerator, you are making a commitment to the future so that you have food to eat for the next ten years.

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.

Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.

We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.

In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

Looking towards the future excites me with the possibilities we have to improve, and I'm excited about what the future might bring.

What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences.

In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.

You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Eric followed Vlad Tepes’s stubby finger, identifying me as the future Happy Meal. Then he stared at Dracula, looking up from his kneeling position. I couldn’t read his face at all, and I felt a stirring of fear. What would Charlie Brown have done if the Great Pumpkin wanted to eat the little red-haired girl?

It's about panic. It's about fear. It's about instilling the American populace with terror, dread, and apprehension about the future. It's all about making you think that your way of life is "destroying the world." America is the root of all evil in the world, according to the environmentalist wackos. You, the citizens of the United States, are ruining everything.

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real.

I see a bright future for the future of computing and its implications for games.

I used to think the reason I'd like to stop letting fear run my life was that it felt so bad to be afraid, and also that it was pointless - possibly wasted, if the feared thing never did materialize. But now that fear has packed its miserable bags and is running out the door, making slamming noises to call attention to itself, I begin to see how much room fear has occupied. What opportunity opens up!