Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past. — C. K. Prahalad
The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed! — Jim Rohn
There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation — Jim Rohn
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. — Eric Hoffer
The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly. — Steve Kerr
The best way to predict the future is to create it. — Peter Drucker
It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. — Henri Poincare
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it. — Jason Silva
He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it. — H. G. Wells
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. — Voltaire
The future is purchased by the present. — Samuel Johnson
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry Luce
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. — Muriel Barbery
Short Anticipating The Future Quotes
We have looked into the future and the future is ours. — Cesar Chavez
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. — Alan Rickman
I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past. — Mike Rowe
The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. — Ilya Prigogine
Anticipating The Future Image Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Anticipating The Future Quotes
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. — S. N. Goenka
Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself. — Barbara Johnson
Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future. — Jessica Lange
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. — Eugene O'Neill
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static. — Oleg Cassini
The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers. — Ludwig von Mises
I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened. — Amy Grant
A good bet in economics: the past wasn’t as good as you remember, the present isn’t as bad as you think, and the future will be better than you anticipate. — Morgan Housel
I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. — Henry David Thoreau
When I Think About The Future Quotes
I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird. — Amy Winehouse
You know, when I was 14, a kid from our community said to me: ‘Everyone’s talking about you, Caleb. They say you’re the chosen one.’ That quote always made me so nervous, that I seriously started to think about my future. I changed a lot during that time. — Caleb Followill
When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different. — Chuck Klosterman
I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope. — Joel Osteen
For me, I make a schedule and I pass the time. I don't think about the transformation. When my schedule says I'm finished on this day, I put it in the past and go toward my future. — Tehching Hsieh
I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future. — Elton John
I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers. — Muhammad Ali
The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would look like in the future. So I think it's important for writers and artists to try to imagine that. — Mohsin Hamid
I'm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn't think about the future. — Kevin O'Leary
I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future. — Julie Murphy
What The Future Will Bring Quotes
You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done. — Ian Kershaw
Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting. — Neil Armstrong
The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts. — Bertrand Russell
Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future. — Joan D. Chittister
Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite. — Jonathan Brandis
God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.] — John H Aughey
You know, I don’t know what the future will bring, but I’m ready for whatever comes! — Sissy Spacek
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe. — John Milton
I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come. — Alonzo Mourning
You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives. — Ian Botham
Future Excitement Quotes
I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music. — David Guetta
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past. — Simon Sinek
I've come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what's ahead and feel the peace that "all is well in the universe." When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future. — Marci Shimoff
I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes. — David Hockney
Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future. — Nelson Mandela
This is a wonderful world for women. The richness, the hope, the promise of life today, particularly for women, are exciting beyond belief. Nonetheless, we need stout hearts and strong characters; we need knowledge and training; we need organized effort to meet the future. — Belle S. Spafford
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. — J. G. Ballard
Through crowdfunding anyone can find companies and products.Forming a partnership with innovative British businesses was appealing and the opportunity to go on a journey with these companies as they grow, and hopefully share in their future success, is exciting. — Andy Murray
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. — Anita Brookner
Predicting The Future Quotes
Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development. — Yuri Gagarin
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. — William Arthur Ward
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. — Ulysses S. Grant
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. — Yogi Berra
I believe it's hard to predict the future. It's not that hard to predict the present. In other words, it's not that hard to understand what's going on today. — Howard Marks
My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers. — Wernher Von Braun
The laws of physics can’t predict the future. — Naval Ravikant
Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment. — Nicole Kidman
It does not presume to predict the future from the past. — Naval Ravikant
The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus. — William S. Burroughs
Knowing The Future Quotes
Do not look back,
No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.
If you dwell on the past or future,
You will miss the moment. — Rumi
Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. — Plato
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it. — Claude Shannon
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. — George Harrison
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the
past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I
just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap. — Townes Van Zandt
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future. — Andy Griffith
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. — Anna Quindlen
To build up a future, you have to know the past. — Otto Frank
We still don’t have a clue about what’s going on in the human brain. We have theories; we just don’t know for sure. We can’t build an electrical circuit, digital or analogue or other, that mimics the biological system. We can’t emulate the behavior. One day in the future, we think we can. — Annie Jacobsen
Imagining The Future Quotes
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible. — Ida Tarbell
Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it. — Gurbaksh Chahal
I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially. — Chris Cornell
If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them. — Michel Odent
Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. — Will Smith
Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one. — Walter Brueggemann
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones. — Henri Coanda
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. — George Orwell
In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined. — Nicholas Sparks
Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination. — Bill W.
Thinking About The Future Quotes
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. — Kahlil Gibran
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole. — Hugh Hefner
I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential. — Ratan Tata
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here. — Bob Riley
You can't have a better tomorrow if
you are thinking about yesterday all the time. — Charles Kettering
I will think twice in the future about what I post. Probably three times. — Logan Paul
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. — Carlos Santana
Stop thinking about your past mistakes. Stop worrying about what the future holds. Start focusing on what you can do now. — Patrick Bet-David
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. — Patrick Rothfuss
Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, the way it is. — Naval Ravikant
Looking To The Future Quotes
Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day. — Rachel Boston
Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence. — Pope John Paul II
Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future. — Prince Charles
Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future. — Young Jeezy
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. — George Burns
I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. — Jomo Kenyatta
Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory. — Angela Merkel
The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now. — Priscilla Shirer
The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else. — Gabe Newell
Looking Forward To The Future Quotes
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future. — Robert. L. Ehrlich
When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path. — Jack Davenport
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. — Steve Jobs
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. — Steve Jobs
If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future. — Henry Watkins Allen
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty. — Seneca The Elder
I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future. — Lou Reed
Never give up. Look forward to the future, and don’t give a damn about haters — Jang Hyun-seung
We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt. — David Graeber
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. . . Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment. — Paramahansa Yogananda
To make a judgment you need to compare a current observation to one you’ve made in the past. To be anxious you need to think about the future and anticipate that it’ll be worse than the present. To be bored you need to long for a state other than what’s happening in the present. To be ashamed you need to re-create a moment that no longer exists. To be unhappy you need to focus on what you want that you don’t yet have. With the exception of pain, no one ever suffered from what was going on in the present moment. — Mo Gawdat
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant. — Jean Webster
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them]. — Oscar Wilde
If we live in the here and now, each moment is a surprise, every instant a new wonder. But it often fails to work this way. Onto the present we superimpose our expectations and opinions, based on the past or future. We meet someone, and we already anticipate what he/she will be like and what they will say. — Piero Ferrucci
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. — Bernard Beckett
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. — Oliver Goldsmith
The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today]. — Dean Acheson
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own. — Blaise Pascal
So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work. — Janet Napolitano
Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future. — E. Stanley Jones
[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost. — Viktor E. Frankl
The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now. — James A. Baldwin
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. — Kevin Kelly
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. — Kevin Kelly
We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]! — Zig Ziglar
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest. — Samuel Johnson
When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation, or regret. This means that the mind is left open to Being, the simplest state of awareness. — Deepak Chopra
When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future". — Gretchen Rubin
Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future. — Ron Chernow
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary. — Terence McKenna
In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose. — Samuel Johnson
To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future. — Daniel Burrus
[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.] — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel. — Robert Grudin
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future. — Antonio Damasio
I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child. — John Shelby Spong
The past, the future: - two eternities! — Thomas Moore
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present. — Baruch Spinoza
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless. — Samuel Johnson
It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future event. In order to anticipate correctly they must also anticipate correctly the quantity as it were of each factor's contribution and the instant at which its contribution will become effective. — Ludwig von Mises
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation. — Eckhart Tolle
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