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A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album. | Bo Bennett | Goals, Dream, Pictures |
Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, has suffered and paid for our sins and those of all the people we will ever meet. He has perfect understanding of the feelings, the suffering, the trials, and the needs of every individual. | Henry B. Eyring | Father, Son, Suffering |
Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done they look forward to create a better future. | Mark Cuban | Better, Look, Forward |
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. | George Orwell | Thinking, Past, Political |
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole. | Hugh Hefner | Thinking, Past, Me |
People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind. | Eckhart Tolle | Memory, Past, Mind |
I really believe in the idea of the future. | Zaha Hadid | Believe, Idea, Really |
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. | Winston Churchill | Mind, Empires |
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms. | Jack Horner | Opportunity, Thinking, Past |
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future. | Sylvia Earle | Deep, Sky, Past |
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. | Patrick Henry | Past, Know, Way |
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. | George Burns | Life, My Life, Rest |
I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is. | Dhani Jones | Life, Beautiful, Long |
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role. | Heinz Guderian | Battle, Play, Will |
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. | Charles Darwin | Man, World, Savage |
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing. | Kimberly Caldwell | Life, Mistakes, People |
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. | Hannah Arendt | Promises, Way, Human |
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. | Jim Rohn | Small Things, Small, Hands |
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. | Warren Bennis | Dog, Man, Employees |
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future. | Heather Brooke | Community, Small, Driving |
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. | Henri Nouwen | Life, Past, Place |
I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present. | Narendra Modi | Past, Live, Madness |
The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast we all have an opportunity to create the future together. | Ryan Bethencourt | Opportunity, Together |
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. | Frederick Douglass | Past, Present, Useful |
I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers. | Mother Angelica | God, I Am, Past |
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. | Marya Mannes | Revenge, End, Earth |
There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future. | Jay Weatherill | Opportunity, Past, Present |
Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day. | Douglas Conant | Change, Day, People |
Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas. | John Lydon | Culture, Youth, Ideas |
As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future. | Indra Nooyi | Leader, Myself, Caring |
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. | Albert Einstein | Past, Present, Illusion |
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. | Sitting Bull | Life, Children, Together |
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future. | Alexis Herman | Child, Forward, Labor |
To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Tomorrow, Make It Happen |
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. | Wilfrid Laurier | Children, Past, Look |
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. | Gunter Grass | Growth, Statistics, Place |
Every thought we think is creating our future. | Louise L. Hay | Thought, Creating, Think |
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. | Ulrich Beck | Eyes, Globalization, Present |
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. | Dorothy Dix | Day, Tomorrow, Dark |
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. | Queen Elizabeth II | God, Power, I Am |
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future. | Stan Musial | Past, You, First |
Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche. | Apolo Ohno | Work, Work Hard, Style |
I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon. | Jose Andres | Looking, Horizon, Always |
For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make. | Edward Kennedy | Life, Journey, Great |
The future ain't what it used to be. | Yogi Berra | Used |
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Today, Past, Present |
The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future. | Angela Merkel | Fate, Europe, Common |
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. | Maurice Maeterlinck | Path, Men, Past |
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before. | Hillary Clinton | Children, Stronger, Grow |
Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they want to be made happy. Listen to them. Make them happy. But don't rely on them to create the future road map for your product or service. That's your job. | Mark Cuban | Happy, Service, Job |
I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball. | Michael Jordan | Speak, Crystal, Ball |
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. | Seneca | Enjoy, Present, Way |
We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future. | Thurgood Marshall | Life, Children, Opportunity |
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations. | Peter Singer | Animal, Suffering, Leaving |
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. | James Buchan | Power, Want, Three |
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. | Horace | Day, Gift, Whatever |
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. | Ulysses S. Grant | Progress, Book, Influence |
There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the roiling energy and its forceful race into the future. Of course, after 15 minutes, I want to get as far away from there as possible. | Jan Vogler | Energy, Want, See |
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future. | Mahatma Gandhi | Past, Look, Bad |
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. | Carl Jung | Past, Bridge, Philosophy |
Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation. | Kevin Rudd | Time, Great, Together |
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. | Reid Hoffman | Yourself, You, Investing |
In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep. | Daniel H. Wilson | Sleep, Control, You |
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. | Sylvia Plath | Man, Woman, Place |
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother. | Tre Cool | School, Practice, Perfect |
You can expect interior enforcement actions in the future. | Asa Hutchinson | You, Interior, Actions |
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. | Joshua Chamberlain | Plan, Know, Cannot |
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. | Rainer Maria Rilke | Long, Order, Us |
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. | James Thurber | Past, Present, Sound |
I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future. | Heath Ledger | Planning, Want, Forward |
Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families. | James Surowiecki | Life, Good, Commitment |
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future. | Ken Robinson | Past, Doing, You |
The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. | Tennessee Williams | Important, You, Possible |
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen. | David Lynch | Happy, Door, Nice |
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back. | Dan Quayle | Past, Forward, Question |
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America. | John L. Lewis | America, Voice, Thoughtful |
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. | Maurice Strong | Earth, Future Generations |
Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present. | Petra Nemcova | Past, Live, Learn |
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. | George MacDonald | Best, Preparation, Present |
The future is made of the same stuff as the present. | Simone Weil | Present, Same, Made |
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. | E. T. Bell | Mistakes, Mathematics, Past |
Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also. | Dalai Lama | People, Years, Always |
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. | George Will | Way, Arriving |
My future is righteousness. | Bob Marley | Righteousness |
No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown. | Alexandra Maria Lara | Me, Career, Hometown |
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet. | Thich Nhat Hanh | Practice, Enlightenment |
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. | Carrie Chapman Catt | Resistance, Distance, Right |
Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy. | Benazir Bhutto | Democracy, Goal, Battle |
I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way. | Tawakkol Karman | Children, Heart, World |
Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future. | Thomas Frey | Life, Motivation, Greatest |
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out. | Larry David | Good, Planning, Homeless |
Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them. | Jenna Ushkowitz | Day, Stress, Moment |
I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network. | Jack Dorsey | Think, Will, Payment |
Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit. | David Vitter | Soul, Challenges, Mind |
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past. | Bob Dylan | Past, Me, Well |
Never make predictions, especially about the future. | Casey Stengel | Never, Predictions, About |
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. | Wayne Dyer | Life, Day, Past |
You can never plan the future by the past. | Edmund Burke | Past, Plan, You |
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. | Herbert Spencer | Wise, Man, Past |
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. | Ronald Reagan | Past, Live, Inspiration |