future anticipation Quotes

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.

The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

These tenses-past, present and future-are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. That which is no longer before the mind becomes the past. That which is before the mind is the present. And that which is going to be before the mind is the future. Past is that which is no longer before you. Future is that which is not yet before you. And present is that which is before you and is slipping out of your sight. Soon it will be past.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal.

As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.

It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.

What differentiates human from lower-animal consciousness is time. You can't explain the concept of "tomorrow" to your dog. Our consciousness is dominated by time - We're constantly running simulations of the future. Our brain is a prediction machine. The hallmark of intelligence, indeed of genius, is the number and complexity of the feedback loops we use in predicting the future.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.