Top 1200 Future Generation Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

I have no ambition. I just have a very loving duty given to me in my spiritual heritage of the Himalayan Masters who have passed down this duty from generation to generation, perhaps for thousands of generations: The world has misery, the world has suffering. Do what you can to reduce the pain. Do what you can to soothe people's minds. Don't just counsel, Mr. Therapist ... console.

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.

And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and keep the next wave of American jobs and American innovations, who's figuring out how to out-compete the Idea Generations of Indias and Chinas of the world.

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

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 go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can spread. One violent act can elicit a response. It can spread to people in a peer group so that they feel that they have to respond. It can pass generation to generation almost like a genetic disease.

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

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.

No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

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

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.

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

As people of color, it took a whole generation in many ways to get us out of the kitchen, and it's gonna take us the same whole generation to get us back into the kitchen and have ownership of restaurants, hotels and stuff like that.

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

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

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

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

So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.

It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.

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

Of course the issue of ending war, and creating prosperity; they're overarching issues all the time. But right now, the challenge to this generation I believe is the climate crisis. It's a national security issue, it's a health issue in terms of clean air, it's a competitiveness issue in terms of innovation and it's a moral issue to preserve the planet for the next generation.

Throughout my life, I have been fascinated by predictability and frustrated by our inability to predict. I don't believe it makes sense for our generation to believe or pretend that we can solve the problems of the future because do not understand what these problems will be. Just do this thought experiment: Imagine you're in month of May 1914, and try to work out a plan of action for the next 100 years! Hardly anything will make sense.

I don't care about the future. I feel the future always reserves enough good things for you if you stay open and you smile.

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

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.

All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.

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

In the 'Days Of Future Past' comic, the aim is to go back in time to preserve peace for the lives of mutants in the future.

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

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.

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

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

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

You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves. p.32

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

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.

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

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life

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.

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that just leaves us with only one other possibility... that life came as a supernatural act of creation by God, but I can't accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

When we see society telling women that they have a certain time, that they make women compete with each other, the older generation competing with the younger generation. They've made us believe that there's not enough men out there for us or that we're only hired because of our looks and not because of our abilities.

Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford to open up the high frontier. What we do during the next ten or twenty years may determine whether future generations will live in a humane and rewarding society, or whether they will spend their lives in desperate contention for the dwindling sustenance afforded by our limited terrestrial resources.

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

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

I think I'm slightly older than the generation that was really bred on social media - I had Facebook in high school, but I was growing up in a time where these things were relatively new, and every generation below me is growing up having every single thing they do seen. And that is kind of frightening.

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.