Top 1200 Future Shock Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen.

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.

Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

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.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.

When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what you've written!

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.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

Personally more so than shock, I think, rap music has to be born of rebellion.

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

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.

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.

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

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution that says: 'We will allow the good God to make plans for the future - for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served.' So we do not worry about the future.

In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.

There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.

Italy is working to make sure the Brexit shock is an opportunity for a European reawakening.

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.

It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.

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.

Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into the present and also continue into the future. A day's occurrence evokes both the past and the future. That's why I want to clearly date my pictures. It's actually frustrating, that's why I now photograph the future

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

2010 was sort of this shock and shift in congress, with the real emergence of the Tea Party.

Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn't really feel scary.

It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going to happen... I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is boring. The future is going to be boring.

Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

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.

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 pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.