Top 1200 Future Plans Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology.

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.

Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.

At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact.

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.

It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

State intentions every day. Create action plans to achieve your intention.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

I wanted to be a designer but I guess destiny had other plans for me and I became an actor.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.

Before starting a building project, it is wise to discuss your plans in full with the neighbours.

If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

Being transparent about our plans enables us to get better feedback.

My favorite saying is, 'If you want to make god laugh, tell him about your plans.'

I had this crazy, a bit of a near-death experience in Estonia. I had these visions of the future but I was in this state where I felt the past, the present, and the future were all happening at the same time.

For me, David Warner isn't just the future of Australian batting, he's the future for cricket in general because he can excel in any form of the game. I'm excited just watching him.

I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.

Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.

This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.

Although there are many plans in a loving heart,but only God’s will is sufficiently established.

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path laid down by former leaders of the party for the development of the country and its brighter future.

You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.

Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five.

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

You see, I'm also a futurist. I dream about the world 50, 100, maybe even 1,000 years in the future. But I also realize I'm probably not going to see it. However, I wouldn't mind having at least a copy of myself see the future, maybe 50, 100, 1,000 years into the future. It would be a fantastic ride.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.