Top 1200 Predicting The Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would result in lost jobs. Yeah, his and Biden's.

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

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.

Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed. Lean prose, great characters, and almost unbearable tension ensure that Robopocalypse is going to be a blockbuster. Once started I defy anyone to put it down.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Resilient people recognize that no matter how bad the circumstances are, their situation could always be worse. They don't allow themselves to exaggerate how terrible their problems are, and they don't run around predicting how much worse things are going to get. Instead, they view failure with an accurate perspective.

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.

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.

People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

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

Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

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

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

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

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.

One of the greatest technicians of all time was a man named W. D. Gann (1878-1955). He had tremendous success predicting market moves much in advance. Legend has it that he occasionally sent notes to 'The Wall Street Journal', which accurately predicted tops and bottoms in grain markets months ahead of time.

So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it.

If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.

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.

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.

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

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

I've really learned, first, focusing on the future and thinking about the future doesn't let you enjoy where you are now. And second of all, it's things that you can't control. You can't know.

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

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

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

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

The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.

If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

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.

If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.

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

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.

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.

When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright!

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.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.

Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.

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

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.