Future Thinking Quotes

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.

We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.

Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed into the future, thinking that tomorrow things are going to be better, a lottery is going to open in your name. But of course you have to wait for tomorrow, it cannot be just now - and tomorrow never comes. All that comes is always the present moment, which is empty. Greed is because we don't know how to live the present moment in its total richness.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

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

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

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.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.