Future Preparation Quotes

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

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

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.

Attending USC has been such a great experience for me and has really helped prepare me for my next step in life.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

We should not have 8th grade graduations. Instead we should tell the students, “You have a long way to go. Get your butt down and study.”

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

Our great trouble is that we tend to bring up our children for the world in which we ourselves have lived. We rarely take into consideration the changes which have come about in our own lifetime and which are likely to come about before our children are fully grown. Perhaps we handicap them unnecessarily by too much anchoring to the old and too little preparation for the new.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

I would say it is important to have a good education, as hockey is a career that does not last many years, and you need to be prepared for this.