Top 1200 Future Development Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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

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

The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will have to digest the definition of real development: development is synonymous with culture. When we sublimate nature in a way that we achieve peace, happiness, prosperity and, ultimately, fulfilment along with satisfying our basic needs, we march towards culture.

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.

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

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

Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to face an ever-changing future and to master it. We are not frozen into the backward-facing impotence of those societies, fixed in the rigidness of an official dogma, to which the future is the mirror of the past. We are free to make the future for ourselves.

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.

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

If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.

What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.

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

It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.

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

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.

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

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

I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.

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.

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

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.

Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes.

I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.

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

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

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

Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would give rise to truly human development. Only in charity, illumined by the light of reason and faith, is it possible to pursue development goals that possess a more humane and humanizing value.

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

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

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

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

The solution was eventually found by Johannes Gutenberg, who made the breakthrough that finally established printing as the communication technology of the future. Similar ideas may have been under development around the same time in Prague and Haarlem. But in business, the key question is not about who else is in the race, it's about who gets there first. Johannes Gutenberg was the first to make the new technology work, ensuring his place in any history of the human race.

They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development of others.

It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment is now in the process of development; that its eventual perfection is but a matter of time; and its use in warfare is certain to occur. I refer to the rocket. The perfection of the rocket in my opinion will give to future warfare the horror unknown in previous conflicts and will make possible destruction of nations, in a cool, passionless and scientific fashion.

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

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

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.

Through the art of personal development, we see an opportunity for these animals to inspire compassion, essentially creating a path to deep personal growth. This program [Animal sanctuary] will deploy ISF's youth development program, U Factor. The program helps youth identify their passion, cultivate their talent, amplify their purpose, and connect the younger generation to diminishing species and biodiversity.

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

Our job is to build a company for the future that can meet the demands of the artist and fan of the future.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

In the near future, despite the development of alternative energy, when you look at the economics and environmental standards, then there's no other source of primary energy in the world than natural gas. Well, perhaps there is nuclear energy but there are also a lot of issues there and there are opponents of nuclear energy. Gas doesn't have those opponents. But there is a country that is, obviously, the world leader in gas reserves. That's our country, the Russian Federation.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next decade. The entry of large numbers of American and other biochemists into the field will ensure that all the chemical details of replication and transcription will be elucidated. Because of this, I have long felt that the future of molecular biology lies in the extension of research to other fields of biology, notably development and the nervous system.

The educated youth are the future of Pakistan and they will make us proud in the future too.

The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few... Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.

The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most extreme form in anti-Western academe. Second, it is used as a negative label for any effort by the United States, or the West, to encourage liberties, to block fanaticisms, and to make aid dependent on positive economic policies. Those concerned with the future development of their countries, and of the world, cannot afford to let obsolete resentments distort their aims.

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.

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.