The Future Quotes

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.

The future is no place to place your better days.

If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present.

A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now.

The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

The future will be better tomorrow.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

The future ain't what it used to be.

What happens when the future has come and gone?

The past is certain, the future obscure.

Study the past if you would define the future.

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.