Jacque Fresco Quotes

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Everything we do has consequences.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

The long run may be too long.

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Every decision you make has a consequence.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course. But I was pretty certain as I sat there that tonight that if it hadn't been for Eddie, I wouldn't have found myself on the PCT. And though it was true that everything I felt for him sat like a boulder in my throat, this realization made the boulder sit ever so much lighter. He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.