Top 1200 Shaping The Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

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

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.

'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.

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.

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.

In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

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.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

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.

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.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

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.

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.

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

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

'Born This Way' is shaping up to be creative ecstasy.

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

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

'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.

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.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

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.

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

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.

The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness... it's manipulative and deeply political.

The past is an open wound, a life force busily shaping an increasingly bewildering present.

Summer is conference season - a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries.

I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

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.

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

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.

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.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

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?

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

In fact, my dad has a significant role to play in shaping my opinions and value system.

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.

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.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.