Future Quotes

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

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

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

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

One faces the future with one's past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.

I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

Public education is an investment in our future.

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.