future projection Quotes

It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

This will be the century of America.

Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

By 2030, up to 10 percent of the world's gross domestic product could be linked to space in some way.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.

By the year 2040, the world's population is likely to increase by about 2 billion people, with also projected economic output will be up about 130 percent versus the year 2010.

If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Future is your projection of unfulfilled desires. The more unfulfilled you are, the bigger a future you have. The more unfulfilled is your being, the richer the dreams you have of the future. But it is just in your mind.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

That's stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they're lying to themselves first.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.