Future Awareness Quotes

The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn’t look at coming changes.

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

A Westerner is someone who is aware of tomorrow, of it being definitely different from yesterday and accepts not knowing what the future will bring

When we look as a society, we've really lost the connection between our actions and the future.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.