Top 998 Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Only you can control your future.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!

I do think space hotels are probably in our future.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

History is the best guide to 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.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.

Everywhere I go I find that people... both leaders and individuals... are asking one basic question, 'Is there any hope for the future?' My answer is the same, 'Yes, through Jesus Christ.'

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation's future.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

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.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.