Top 1200 Visions Of The Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Our economic future and our energy future are one in the same, and it's a future America can't shrink from. We must shape it, just as we've always done. We have to protect our planet from the threat of climate change and ensure that workers have the skills to compete for good middle-class jobs.

The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

I don't foresee a future where people don't have some sort of phone that's like a computer. I don't foresee a future where those phones don't have cameras in them. That spells a future where smartphones are the status quo. You have to ask yourself how you allow people to communicate what's in their lives.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.

Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on.

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

When Zaytoven and Future are working together, then Future's not working on no other tracks, and Zaytoven's not making no beats for nobody but Future.

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

We have all these ideas and visions, and they're able to come to life, and our voices are being heard, which is really amazing.

Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

One of the best antidotes for depression is to look around and see what you can do to help out - to make a difference - for now and the future. Now is the future, for what I do right now is the future. For what I am doing right now is already affecting tomorrow.

Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me!

Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.

My girlfriend says I have frontal-lobe epilepsy. I have visions. They have slowed down as I've gotten older, but I still have them.

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.

I want to run a marathon in the immediate future. In the future future, I want to do ironmans. I cycle long distances. The only thing I have to work on is the swimming. I'm a good swimmer, but I've never done long distances like that.

Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

I've always had visions of being a starting quarterback. That's why I come to work every day.

The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.

Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

Sometimes as friends, you grow apart and you have different visions for what you wanna do and that's OK, there's no love lost.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality.

Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today

Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.