Top 1200 Imagining The Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

Worrying is imagining that which you don't want.

I have a hard time imagining a life without basketball.

If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it. Nobody is doing anything with it.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen.

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.

Man is an imagining being.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

In Korean, the word 'future' is made up of two parts. The first part means 'not,' and the second means 'to come.' In that sense, 'future' means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

I spend my life imagining you, it is not time to be a coward.

We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.

I've been imagining spikes in my head since I was 13 years old.

When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you. When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.

But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry - school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general - but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

Imagining and visualising the situation prepares you for any challenge

I love walking into an empty room and imagining what it could be.

There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

Just believe in the future and direction of the capability that ARM has. Go deep and build a better future, both for the company and for its contribution to the industry. That's what I want ARM to do: invest more the future.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l'avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.

If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

What I'm most excited about is the future of human spaceflight and the fact that this is going to be the future; this is what we're going to do for the foreseeable future.

Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.

Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

Mankind in Amnesia has to do not only with the past, like my other books -- primarily it has to do with the future, a future not removed by thousands or tens of thousands of years, but the imminent future, on whose threshold we now stand.

God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while.” Smiling, he returned to his chair. "I know. You kept telling me that while I was carrying you. You were very upset.” "You...you carried me here?” "After we broke the bench apart and freed your foot.” Man. I'd missed out on a lot. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way.

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.

The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.